No electricity for eleven days. I had no work but, luckily I was still getting paid.
But that didn't help the fact that there were no groceries. I went around the city to free food places. A few of them had MRE's, meals ready to eat from the military. Managed to get ice too.
The water continued to work as did the old style phones. I don't think I had a cell phone at the time. We had electricity powered house phones which quickly stopped working. Luckily I had a couple of old phones that didn't need batteries or our electricity to function.
We had no air conditioning but that was okay because our house was so old it had been designed to allow air to flow through open doors and windows. We have screen doors and windows fore and aft to keep out the bugs.
With much less work and not as much to do at night for most people, the traffic was very quiet. I actually enjoyed it.
No AC was okay until, within about three nights the neighbors bought little gas powered electric generators that noised up the entire night.
I hate those things. They can have mufflers attached or built in. But no store sells mufflers for the small generators or generators with built-in mufflers. They get away with it because they're temporary emergency generators.
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