How much we depend on electronics. No power yesterday.
By briggah
@briggah (171)
United States
December 10, 2008 11:01am CST
Not sure where this fits but I figured it's part of life. Do we really know how much we depend on electronics? Basically we had a blackout yesterday for about 2 hours. I was playing on my lapop at the time when everything shut off. I had to stumble my way around and use my cell phones screen as a flash light to find candles and a lighter. After lighting a few candles I noticed the street lights were out as well. I tried to send a text message to my cousin and they failed to send. Tried making a couple calls and those too failed. About 5 minutes into it my Mother called to see if we had power. She was a couple towns over and the power was out there as well. At that time I resent my text and it went through. My cousins is further away and lost power as well. Basically a couple of counties lost power do to a transformer fire..
Now I had about half hour of battery on my laptop so I played a couple games till it died. Then I grabbed my video IPod and luckly I had some shows on it. I think if I didn't have any of those things I'd go crazy. I started to think about what it would be like without them and it sucked. I don't know how people stayed busy in the past without loosing there minds. So how about you guys? Do you depend on electricity and electronics as much as me? What sorta Things would you do without them?
2 responses
@CRSunrise (2981)
• United States
10 Dec 08
I would say that we are dependant on electricity since like 80 percent of what we do in a daily life needs the stuff to run...shower, laundry, dishes, etc. etc.
I think I could do ok without electricity for a little while as long as there was enough light in the rooms I was in, whether by outside daylight or candlelight. However, after dark, forget it. I would get bored because I couldn't see. lol
@samijo719 (1052)
• United States
10 Dec 08
I think alot f people are very dependant on electronics. Not just in the home but at the office. We use computers for almost everything now. I use my laptop at home for fun to browse, play games, etc. And at work all of our accounts and things I do all day everyday are on a computer so if we didn't have electricity it would be a WHOLE different world now. So many people and business depend on electricity that I'm not sure they would know what to do without it.
