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Do you have any good blackout stories?
About halfway through cooking Valentine’s Day dinner last night, our power went out. Luckily, we have a gas stove, and I already had a glass of wine in my hand. We finished cooking with candles and flashlights, then listened to a Radiolab podcast while lying in bed with more wine. It was surprisingly fun! But a little disturbing to realize how helpless I felt with no TV and almost no internet (I can get it on my phone, but it was super slow and barely working during the outage).
What about you? What have you done to pass the time during power outages? Did you kind of like being unplugged temporarily? Or did it cause some kind of terrible problem?
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