Friday, May 2, 2008

Our Dependence on Electricity

I don't know what we would do if all the electricity went away.

Last night, there was a really huge storm. I was amazed by how high the wind speeds were (thankfully, no damage was really done to my house), and of course there was the lightning. Well, obviously, both of these things are detrimental to power lines. People on my bus were talking about how they didn't have power (luckily, my house only experienced a brief surge), and the bus driver pointed out that you couldn't even get into school without electricity, because of a card-key scanner opening system. But there was still school today. In any case, as I've been told, our school has its own generator.
But all of it makes me wonder what would happen if all of it went away- if we were left with technology without juice. It's a scary thought, how dependent we are.
Ylerecnis,
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