By now you’ve probably managed to hear about yesterday’s little blackout that some people have been suffering through (unless you happen to be in one of the effected areas). Of course, by little we mean monumentally large and incomprehensible in this day and age. I still have trouble believing that most of northeastern North America is still without power. Who says Americans and Canadians don’t do things together anymore?
By the grace of something much bigger than me, all of this outage I had the pleasure of experiencing was a little power spike that reset my computer and stopped my ceiling fan for a few seconds. Oh, that and all but ending my work day since most of the work I do happens to be located on computers in the Metro New York area.
If there has ever been a time when I could be thankful I don’t have to commute into NYC, then today would be it. I was having sympathy pains for the throngs of commuters I saw lining up to try and grab a ferry or bus, or walking the many, many blocks to their homes. Chances are if I had been in the city that I would have been sleeping at my desk or on some park bench.
Isn’t it fun having a “third-world power grid“?
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