Power outage

Posted by Janice on February 5, 2010

I absolutely love living in rural Virginia.  I love looking out from my living room window at the cows, sheep, and horses grazing in the fields across the street.  I love how quiet the nights are, and how easily I can see the stars because the is virtually no light pollution.  But let me tell you, with this blizzard we just had, we had a power outage of seven hours, and even after the power came back on the cable television and Internet did not come back on for almost twenty-four hours! 

My entire family was just about climbing the walls because we had no Internet access for so long!  I think I’ll be checking out the wildblue satellite internet services to see what their rates are.  I don’t want to be without Internet again!  I can’t believe how dependent my family has become on it for so many functions – entertainment, communications, paying bills, shopping…..  We depend on it so much!

Now that the Internet has come back up on line, the entire family has parked themselves in front of their respective computers.  Watching shows, checking their emails, playing games.  I have to make sure that the bills I needed to pay got paid!  I hope I didn’t miss any deadlines!