What Happens When The Lights Go Out?

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It has been a dreadful night last night when the electricity tripped several times while I was surfing the net and what I feared most is the effect on my computer of being rudely shut down when there are power failures. It was raining heavily outside when the whole country was engulfed with darkness as it is once again an electricity blackout. This is a regular happenings in my place and last night was the worse as before the total shut out the lights were flickering as though teasing me for being too long in front of the computer before totally giving way to darkness. I went through another round of anguish and frustrations and pointing my fingers to the inefficient national energy company. I have to spend most of the night in sweltering heat, trying to read the newspaper in the dimming candle light. What about your country, do you also face this kind of regular blackouts? Who are we going to blame, the energy company that supplies electricity who cannot keep up our demands or our over consumption of electrical power with all the modern gadgets used which has consumed lots of energy? Rather then blaming the power company for not being able to keep up with our demands, we should instead learn to conserve our energy instead. So conserving energy is not only going to save us some money but probably makes us use it more efficiently anyway. Perhaps we are spoilt. I know people who lived through world war II who are obsessed with keeping every bit of string that they find because they remember the days of rationing. When you have been deprived once, you appreciate things more. Maybe a blackout is simply a reminder to look at ourselves and to understand that we (not some mechanical contraption) are the cause of our own failures.