[farming pharmer]

My thoughts exactly. My husband was flying into Detroit several years ago for a wedding. The rest of our family and I were already there. It was the huge power outage in August of 2003 I believe. The entire event was quite humorous and we still laugh about it today.

That day I had just finished my shift at the nuclear pharmacy and was half-way home. Suddenly the radio (every station AM & FM), stoplights and every source of electricity was out.

I was sure we had just gotten nuked.

It didn't take but four miles up the road, and everyone was driving like the Keystone Cops. It was mass pandemonium. The water stopped flowing after ~4 hours, but the gas pressure persisted. Luckily, our power came back on after 24 hours but the people across the street (on a different circuit) took 3 days to get power.

It was a serious look into an emergency situation and it wasn't pretty. Don't depend on your neighbors, other drivers or anyone else to do the right thing. I think we would have been stone-age by the end of the week.

[metmom]

Which is a good reason to never let your tank get below a half when traveling.

[del4hope]

We have the entire scenario written down somewhere and it reads better than the movie, Planes Trains and Automobiles. It was one comical event after another.

My cousin’s wedding went from a sit down dinner reception to a throw together pizza party at the church. She still is disappointed to this day, but we remind her that everyone had a great time!!