> Power Outages?!?!? Oh the humanity!!! God forbid if we
> can’t access our cable tv, internet, and charge our cell
> phones for 2 entire days.
Most rural folks up here don’t have municipal water.
Their water comes from deep well electric pumps.
And it’s usually the rural folks that experience the most power outages.
Not everybody can afford to buy a generator, and gas is scarce in times like these anyway, so outages of more than a few days mean no water even for those with generators.
Most of us couldn’t care less about cable or even internet. We don’t even have a bloody TV.
Water is the big concern for us.
Some friends of ours have to use a boat to get to and from their house, because their road is under at least a foot of water. But it ain’t the kind of water you can drink.
Man.. The stories about the 1800’s must be hogwash. No way nobody could live without water pumps and refrigerators.