"Peter R." wrote:

Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo wrote:

I had to add this one...so about the 5th hour of the power outage my
wife and I are listening to the portable radio and this lady calls in
and we hear... "Perhaps it's times like these when it's inconvenient to
lose power of course but then it's also a time for the family to finally
gather together and share long overdue quality time together" and within
moments of that comment, so help me, we hear from the background a
rather blustery, "Hey! Gimme that friggin' flashlight, Joey, or I'll bop
you with it!" So much for family huddled 'quality time.'

That is classic! It must have been hilarious to hear it in real time.

--
Peter


Peter:

Normally they have these 3 seconds [or more, dunno] delays for such
things [although they themselves were on generator power and possibly
the more fancy electronic gizmos were not functioning...dunno] and there
is always the possibility of a set-up because when there's just nothing
on in those kind of large area emergency situations, radio stations turn
to the phones for folks to essentially check-in and give reports but the
stuff coming in is amazing ranging from those who feel the end is upon
us and thus all should repent or that it's a terrorist movement of some
sort and others, let us say, by the speech and demeanor being obvious
'victims of the thirst' [or grape] as the Irish brethren would say.

This one was just totally unexpected BUT as anyone who has children can
testify [or recall], it 'can' get hairy as time goes on and the kids
have nothing to do when candles and essentially staring at each other or
the ceiling is the sum total of passing the hours [I pulled out the old
folk guitar but, hey, how long can I keep that up when the fingers begin
hurting after so many years of non use!] beyond the first 3 or 4...or
so. And 91 degrees heat and 100% humidity notwithstanding. Yet, did you
catch most of those news report beginnings, Peter, where the classic
[under]-statement was "...Well, this was not supposed to happen
folks...but it did!" and then the equally classic aftermath of such
things: the fixing of the blame. So far, I've heard the fault put on
everything from the 'Big Apple' to Canada to Ohio [!] to, you guessed
it, Al Quaeda [how the hell is that properly spelled anyway!? I've seen
about 5 different versions!] operative machinations.


Doc Tony