With Great Power...

...Comes great air-condtioning. (Sorry, Spider-Man.)

If you've been in Houston the past 24 hours, you know we've been having some problems with power.  It started last night at about 8:30.  I was at work when the lights first went out.  The registers were able to keep running for about a half an hour longer, then they quit.  The customers were ushered out of the store, and we (the employees) started sorting in the dark, until the power came back on about forty-five minutes later.

Today we had power issues again, along with a good amount of wind.  It started about noon, and for my place it went off and on a couple times.  The second time it went off, I thought I'd go to work to see if I could get a couple of things.  Alas, work was closed, and they were ushering people out again.  So I went to Food Town, where everything was working... for a while.  The lights went out there, too, but no one seemed to be in a hurry to leave yet.  Everyone seemed to be making the rounds to whichever store was open in the area.

On I went to Target.  All seemed to be well there. 


Oh, man.  The lights went out after a couple of minutes.  Then they came back on.  Then, they just went off.  The employees let us keep shopping for a while, although I was told by an employee that they would have to kick us out eventually to avoid theft.  Employees were also mentioning closing off the frozen/refrigerated food sections soon.  I heard mumblings about "flashlight apps"; indeed, some people were using theirs. 

I left eventually and went back to Food Town; it was still dark-- and pretty busy.  That was really my last stop of the day.  When I was on my way home Mom called to say that we had power again.  Maybe I should write a book: The Survival Guide for People in Weird Situations, or something like that.


So... here I am, doing this blog- with power and A/C (!!).


For right now, anyway. :)


And, yes, I did get a flashlight app.