Electricity on Greenville

Electricity still not on on Laurel. What did I learn during the second blackout?

You can sit outside Glendale Municipal Building and use their wifi spot to go on the internet.
My portable radio is flawed in that when you are using batteries and turn it off it still drains the batteries.
Laurel without electricity is essentially a boy scout tent. We sleep 13 hours until the sun comes up again.

I repeat what I said after the first blackout:



What did I learn? Get the kids off the soccer field before they are blown over.Get D batteries to run my portable radio. I had them in the radio but had cadged them for something else over time.Having flashlights can be good.Some people cook with gas which can be good when the electricity goes out.Glendale has a very good Mayor Hubbard and City Manager Wally Cordes.The US Bank on Springfield Pike operates without electricity if you know your account number and want $300.Dry ice can be purchased nearby on bypass 50.You can take a warm shower even when you don't have electricity.You can sleep 12 hours at night without listening to BBC.You can beg and wheedle all night and not get it, even when there's nothing else to do.My wife can read in bed with incredibly little light.My neighbor, the gadget-man, has a generator and he and his wife have nice block parties. Actually both side neighbors have a generator, the northern neighbor being the Cincinnati Bell tomb-like switching office.My laptop computer does not take a charge, so requires a new battery.Many Krogers's do not have back-up power.Korean restaurants two shops down from Krogers lose about $400 per day of outage. Such restaurants are "safer" than the one in Hamilton, but the traffic to this mall isn't as much as hoped, even though bypass 50 dead-ends into this shopping center (and the beautiful Hamilton County walking path behind it).The night sky on a clear night in a city without lights is beautiful.One can spend three hours picking up debree.WLW is stupid to continue broadcasting the Sunday Reds-Diamondbacks game while the City is in crisis and needs information. They have admitted as such.The Bengals can lose a home game in a four-hour wind too. Are the players worrying about their families while the weird wind blows through Paul Brown Stadium? I would have.Walgreen's is out of D batteries (first day) but Lowes has gobs of them (second day).People who visit my blog during days when I don't write anything only stay a few seconds. Did I already say that?When the power came back on it was as if the world started afresh, and I thought for an instant Mom was alive again and I was in high school and each minute would be like the last and would imply a better future.