I love thunderstorms, but not when they knock out power for eight hours. You know how it is: the blinding flash, the deafening crack, then darkness. Gone was the Weather Channel radar, at the time showing yellow and red. Gone was my MFS flight from Hana, safely up over the 8,000-foot Maui mountains over to Molokai.
Power soon returned to every building in the complex but mine. First I lied down on the couch and just daydreamed. After 30 minutes of that I found a flashlight and read some issues of PR Week and Mass High Tech. Don't ever say print is dead. That soon got old, so I fired up some candles and my iPod and listened to podcasts: the Dan and David Show from ZDNet, and the weekly one from The Economist. It was Saturday night, after all, so I thought I'd live it up.
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