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For 6 hours. Our electric company is doing major upgrade to our town and they will turn off electricity to the whole town from 9 to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Some church will still have mass but everything else will be close.

For some people like me, I am taking it in stride. I will enjoy a day of rest like the settlers from years ago.

For other, it is total mayhem. I was talking to a mom and dad this morning and they say many people will leave town to do something.

I say enjoy your time with your kids. Play board games, talk to them. Enjoy a BBQ for lunch. Their reply was Do you know how it is hard to entertain kids for 6 hours. Now thier kids are from 9 to 14 years of age.

It is like people in town loose sight of what is important these day. How come they can't play with their kids or talk to them.

The other stupid thing is our local Zellers store. They decide to open from 4 to 7 p.m. after the power failure. The other grocery stores that are usually open on sunday will be close all day.
Why can't big companies just decide to stay close. Is the $$$$$$$$$$$ more important. I guess it is for some.

So what would you do if you where in my shoe?

Luc
 
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I would do exactly as you say, turn the clock back 30 years and just enjoy a Sunday with the kids. No work.
We actually lost our power yesterday morning for 3 hours. Not sure when it would come back on, so in spite of a lot of work to be done, I was fearful to open the coolers until I knew more. So I spent time doing busy work, making bows, cleaning up the workroom and just getting ready to crank out the orders once I finally cracked the cooler open. Luckily, about the time the batteries ran out on emergency lights, the power came back on. Wish it would have been on a Sunday, I'd have put my feet up and said "Ahh, this is the life!"
 
After an ice storm a few years ago, we lost electricity for a week in the dead of winter. Tried to stay open, but it was just too cold. Plus no electricity means no phones, no computers no water. So other than taking care of any large events, we closed up. Time with the kids was awesome. We cooked on an old wood stove in the basement, slept on the floor in front of the fireplace, re-learned how to boil water in the fireplace, and make old fashioned popcorn the way it used to be. Everything became fun again, even cooking hot dogs over the fire. Our son now says he wishes there was an ice storm every year! For some people it was definitely terrible. We were lucky to have the fireplace, so for us it became a fun way to live like our ancestors. ( Bad new...everything at the shop froze solid...lost it all...and the insurance wouldn't cover it!)
 
we had a relaxing "scheduled" power outage 4 weeks ago...it's "interesting" how they SAID that it would be off for 6 hours, and in 5 hours, and 58 minutes, it was back on.....I wonder how they DOO that??
We "discovered" how FAR we can walk in 6 hours!!
 
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For 6 hours. Our electric company is doing major upgrade to our town and they will turn off electricity to the whole town from 9 to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Some church will still have mass but everything else will be close.

For some people like me, I am taking it in stride. I will enjoy a day of rest like the settlers from years ago.

For other, it is total mayhem. I was talking to a mom and dad this morning and they say many people will leave town to do something.

I say enjoy your time with your kids. Play board games, talk to them. Enjoy a BBQ for lunch. Their reply was Do you know how it is hard to entertain kids for 6 hours. Now thier kids are from 9 to 14 years of age.

It is like people in town loose sight of what is important these day. How come they can't play with their kids or talk to them.

The other stupid thing is our local Zellers store. They decide to open from 4 to 7 p.m. after the power failure. The other grocery stores that are usually open on sunday will be close all day.
Why can't big companies just decide to stay close. Is the $$$$$$$$$$$ more important. I guess it is for some.

So what would you do if you where in my shoe?

Luc
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Luc, IF I were IN your shoe, I'd get fresh batteries for my vibrator!!
 
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Well without electricity, can't do much work, but you certainly can get together, talk, play games, do outdoor activities, take a walk...

People today are so dependant on the tv, computer and wii to take care of the kids, such a same and we wonder why they come to the work force and don't know how to deal with the general public, noone has talked to them in 14 years....
 
Communicate with voices, facial expressions, eyes... write with a pen, and enjoy the sound of creating, listen to the natural world around me, really see that world... take a drive to the beach. So many options.

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Remembering the Big Black Out.

I remember The Big Black out of 2003 (electricity, not alcohol induced)

We cooked on the Bar-B-Que, played games and talked by candle light.

Listened to transistor radios.

Looked at the the night sky.

It was a time when we were "turned off" of all the gadgets, it was great.

Doug
 
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And for the next couple of nights the neighbourhood became porch people. They acquainted themselves with neighbours and introduced themselves to strangers. We worked together to ease the way for some and just generally reconnected with humans. What a concept.

V
 
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Our neighborhood in 2005 was without power(hurricane time) for 7 weeks total! Wow, perspective, friendships with neighbors were formed that last until this day, we were more grateful for it when it was turned on again and we learned lots of new cooking methods (pizza or choclate chip cookies on the BBQ anyone?) one can not live on hot dogs and hamburgers alone! Alot more fresh foods were eaten and my kids learned that if they wanted to have clean clothes they had to do them by hand! I eventually moved my sleeping(summer in south Fl) into the store (which did have power after only 3 days) and really learned to appreciate the beauty of the place as I could relax there. An afternoon of no power, piece of cake, hammock time, bike time, doggy time and yes, I'd bet on that babyboomlet in a few mos! Good for the flower biz!
 
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ROTFLMAO!!!

Now there's the Doug I know and miss. :)

You are multi-talented in the RRC department. Which by the way, no matter how you couch it... gross!

V
 
I live in an area where there are a lot of apartment buildings, recently we had an unscheduled powerage. Having grown up in the country, I just grabbed my emergency flashlight and quietly went about the task of getting some light. After a few minutes I could hear my 'neighbours' talking.. when I opened my patio door to see what was going on, I found about half of the people in our four building block staring at my apartment. I was the only one with 'lights'.

I read a book, much like I do every other night. I was travelling home from Toronto the day of the Big 2003 blackout - I was coming home from my honeymoon/GTA gift show. To this day, I'm still thankful that I had the foresight to gas my vehicle up before we got to the halfway point home. By our best guess, power went off 15 minutes after we gassed up the car.
 
Yesterday the power went out in my block at 11:30 am....my driver had just left with a few deliveries and my cell phone was dead....

I had no phone, no computer, no lights and it was very cold here....I had orders for today and it was the height of call time for my biz...I had no way to charge my cell phone...until my driver got back...I ran to the honeydew got a hot coffee, waited for the driver, made my orders for today.. Whaen the driver got back at 12:30 lights were still out and national grid was working on the problem...I got my phone forwarded and my dove forwarded and bloomnet forwarded to phone, I worked out of the car taking orders where it was warm....got 2 more orders for today and 1 more for delivery yesterday...at 4pm I decided that it was getting too dark to see inside my shop and I closed....not sure what time the lights came back on....but I couldn't refuse the orders coming to me this issue falling at the height of a friday....I couldn't process any of the cc until today, but thank god they all went through....it was worth the chance to me...not to let the customers down and not lose a days income to pay that rent next week, especially after a very slow week....
 
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