I should move to Portugal.
Honestly this is exactly what we need. We’ve become too intertwined with the capitalist rush nonsense.
If a solar flare knocked out everything, we would become free
We had feudalism before we knew how to use electricity. It wasn’t great.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if that were a true story lol
Here is the thing though. If it was genuinely an emergency that means it was a pretty big area, if it’s just a few houses that are out power the company wouldn’t consider that an emergency situation.
OP says it’s an emergency, so that means that multiple homes and possibly quite a lot of businesses as well as some manufacturing are probably affected. If the “neighbourhood” is that high priority it almost certainly has multiple cables. There is also no way in hell that the repairs would be carried out by just one person.
Yeah you can almost see the real story screaming out in despair between the lines. Some soulless drone working for electrical company got called out to fix a power line, and on the way they saw a block party going on. They think: wouldn’t it be awesome to join that party instead of having to work. But no they go to work and it takes forever and when they finally figure it out, it was just one loose cable. On the drive back they keep dreaming about that block party.
Yeah, I’d also gaslight myself into believing I attended the party instead.
Lol no way it’s true. But that day was in fact one of the happiest days for a lot of people around the country in a long time 😀
Isn’t it a bit of a phenomenon that a baby boom takes place 9 months after big blackouts like these? So Janury/February next year will be interesting.
Happened after the Eastern CAN/US blackout in 2003, and that was only a few hours for a good chunk of the people.
