Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 13, 2011
Transcript:
Val: Well, it looks like we all get a SNOW DAY! Val: Should be fun, really - Uncle Wally's making waffles, we have a couple of videos...I can catch up with my e-mail... CLICK Holly: Mom? Why did the lights go out? Val: Because somebody, somewhere, really HATES me. Alix: Do we still get waffles?
a few years ago I was without power for ELEVEN DAYS, in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma. That was horrible, especially because I am on well water, and the pump runs on electricity, so –no running water, nor could we flush toilets. We had to finally borrow a generator, but that was the longest 11 days of my life. Now I pay my electric bills with gratitude: I just cannot live without electricity!