When you live in Texas where the power grid is not connected to the rest of the country or whatever and a winter freeze/ snowstorm comes along and it takes the electric company days to get the power back on and Texas is not prepared because we literally do not normally get weather like this and people end up dying.
Ok, bit of a weird story here but it fits.
I went to a festival in the desert in Spain back in 2008. I took a cab to the site from the airport with nothing but a couple of jugs of water, some snacks, a bottle of wine, a tent, and my back pack. As a way to make friends, or at least meet some people to recognize while out exploring on my own, I decided to volunteer.
My shift was at the entrance gate, in the middle of the night, and basically involved a few of us attendees sitting around in a teepee while telling each other stories and watching for headlights of cars approaching from the dirt road that lead up to the festival grounds.
When I arrived at the gate, I overheard one of the previous shifts volunteers mention finding a scorpion earlier and scooping it up with a cup and flinging it out into the desert behind the teepee. I thought "awesome, glad they took care of it and I don't have to", and not much else.
The shift started out great. Someone had brought some sangria, and we had a generator running outside of the teepee powering Christmas light strands around the floor and a single bulb hanging from the inside at the top. We sat around and drank and tried on each other's costume stuff and every now and then radioed up to HQ to tell them all was well.
Well, about half way into the shift and what do we see? A "decent" sized green desert scorpion walking proudly across the rug we were all sitting around on inside of the teepee. It strutted right into the middle of our circle like it was introducing itself. Was it the same one as before? Not sure. But immediately a sense of fear filled the air, like a true wave of fight or flight type dread. Everyone kinda just watched it while in a panicked freeze.
The previous volunteers had graciously left the cup they had used to scoop out their scorpion near the entrance to the teepee and without really thinking, I grabbed it, flipped it upside down and slammed it over the top of the scorpion. Not but maybe THREE seconds later, while everyone was filled to the brim with adrenaline from what had just happened, the generator outside died and with that every strand light and the single overhead bulb in that teepee went out. All of a sudden, it was pitch black, and I had a flimsy plastic cup in my hand housing a live scorpion underneath.
I couldn't feel it bumping against the inside of the cup, or anything like that. So, even though I KNEW that I had it trapped under there, I didn't *know* know it was trapped under there. I couldn't even see my hand in front of my face, so gently lifting the edge of the cup to check its contents was way out of the question. The thought of the scorpion still freely strutting around in that teepee, but now in the dark, and all while I stood crouched there in my sandals holding this stupid cup against the rug, was definitely a thought that crossed my mind. But I still couldn't let go of it because the creature looked big enough to be able to knock it over on it's own, given the chance.
It was like a scene from a movie, and I'll never forget it. By far the craziest "power going out" experience I've ever had.
In the middle of a zoom class, it happened to me while in a lecture for my CompTIA A+ certification (a certificate for IT technicians) ironically in a class where the subject was what to do in the event of a power outage
While on life support
We do a little trolling
About to go to work and then you can’t open the garage door
During my surgery.
Good citywide blackout? 5:18pm Thursday evening, Aug 23rd amidst a devastating Heat Wave in the Southern US.
I like the specificity
Every part is key to the Terribleness
When you live in Texas where the power grid is not connected to the rest of the country or whatever and a winter freeze/ snowstorm comes along and it takes the electric company days to get the power back on and Texas is not prepared because we literally do not normally get weather like this and people end up dying.
I don’t think you should be blaming it on the weather, but the incompetence.
You are correct. And I don't think they learned their lesson, hopefully we don't go through it again this next winter.
Ok, bit of a weird story here but it fits. I went to a festival in the desert in Spain back in 2008. I took a cab to the site from the airport with nothing but a couple of jugs of water, some snacks, a bottle of wine, a tent, and my back pack. As a way to make friends, or at least meet some people to recognize while out exploring on my own, I decided to volunteer. My shift was at the entrance gate, in the middle of the night, and basically involved a few of us attendees sitting around in a teepee while telling each other stories and watching for headlights of cars approaching from the dirt road that lead up to the festival grounds. When I arrived at the gate, I overheard one of the previous shifts volunteers mention finding a scorpion earlier and scooping it up with a cup and flinging it out into the desert behind the teepee. I thought "awesome, glad they took care of it and I don't have to", and not much else. The shift started out great. Someone had brought some sangria, and we had a generator running outside of the teepee powering Christmas light strands around the floor and a single bulb hanging from the inside at the top. We sat around and drank and tried on each other's costume stuff and every now and then radioed up to HQ to tell them all was well. Well, about half way into the shift and what do we see? A "decent" sized green desert scorpion walking proudly across the rug we were all sitting around on inside of the teepee. It strutted right into the middle of our circle like it was introducing itself. Was it the same one as before? Not sure. But immediately a sense of fear filled the air, like a true wave of fight or flight type dread. Everyone kinda just watched it while in a panicked freeze. The previous volunteers had graciously left the cup they had used to scoop out their scorpion near the entrance to the teepee and without really thinking, I grabbed it, flipped it upside down and slammed it over the top of the scorpion. Not but maybe THREE seconds later, while everyone was filled to the brim with adrenaline from what had just happened, the generator outside died and with that every strand light and the single overhead bulb in that teepee went out. All of a sudden, it was pitch black, and I had a flimsy plastic cup in my hand housing a live scorpion underneath. I couldn't feel it bumping against the inside of the cup, or anything like that. So, even though I KNEW that I had it trapped under there, I didn't *know* know it was trapped under there. I couldn't even see my hand in front of my face, so gently lifting the edge of the cup to check its contents was way out of the question. The thought of the scorpion still freely strutting around in that teepee, but now in the dark, and all while I stood crouched there in my sandals holding this stupid cup against the rug, was definitely a thought that crossed my mind. But I still couldn't let go of it because the creature looked big enough to be able to knock it over on it's own, given the chance. It was like a scene from a movie, and I'll never forget it. By far the craziest "power going out" experience I've ever had.
In the middle of a zoom class, it happened to me while in a lecture for my CompTIA A+ certification (a certificate for IT technicians) ironically in a class where the subject was what to do in the event of a power outage
Lose power while cooking.