First, this unreliable, outdated grid has not failed for 26 years. Do you know of any other system that can say that? How about your ISP or your cable TV? How about your computer or your car?

Second, what's the big deal? Where we live elecricity outages are routine. We're in an oak and pine forest with overhead utilities so each time there's a good storm we have dozens to hundreds of outages and it sometimes takes days to get to all of them. No one pays much attention to them. We just get out our Coleman lanterns and carry on.

We do miss the Mudcat when that happens, though.

Bev and Jerry