The Eye of the Storm and the Damage Done

Wind is only second to the power of water and yesterday we had both.  Preparedness was the watchword for this storm and according to the early returns the media as cynics might say duped us once again. If the storm maintained its intensity we would have had more damage than anyone of us could have anticipated but outside of scattered outages we did all right. The Internet is out and I think that causes more consternation and upsetment than any other inconvenience outside of electrical power. Even cell phones are working and land lines too unless you have them plugged into an electric socket. 

I suppose events like this bring people together as most acts of Mother Nature do and it’s something we can talk about into Monday and maybe stretch into later in the week for water cooler confabs and it will probably will be a great source of human-interest stories for the television stations. They for some reason love to interview the person on the street for reactions that they seem to have little interest in outside of the questions they pose and these snippets have little to do with news as our next shower does but I guess they think it comforts us to know that someone else is being affected just like them.  I for one find them annoying and useless sound bytes that serve no real purpose other than to take up airtime because the factual parts of any story just can’t fill the whole time void in the hour allotted.  

So what can we do without power? The high priestess of false security is the one convenience technology has not been able to improve on or even replace and outside of battery power, flashlights and candle power we have the choice of filling our bodies with empty calories or how about we pick up one of the books we bought but never started or maybe we have a serious conversation with a member of our family or significant other that resembles an essay rather than short sentences that never seem to capture what is really going on in our lives. Or more likely most of us will sit in anxious anticipation waiting for the invisible phenomena to be restored.