Robbo's being told now that her power will be out at least another week. She's lucky, though. She heats her house with wood and cooks with propane. Some people have tried cooking indoors with charcoal grills, which is downright dangerous. A lot of peopple have no heat, and New Hampshire isn't known for its warm winters.
They got another snowstorm today, a real blizzard, according to Robbo.
So, she and a few thousand other people will be in the dark for Christmas. It shows just how fragile our national power grid is. We haven't invested in keeping it strong. In fact, we've ignored it like we've ignored all of our infrastructure. People are dying in New England because we can't get the power back up.
I grew up in Massachusetts and lived in Maine and Wisconsin. I've lived through some enormous snow and ice storms and I've never seen power out this long -- well, except for Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
One would think we could do better than this.
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I hadn't been in a big toy store for awhile, but I found myself in a big box toy store today. I was looking for toys for a 3-year-old boy and I was amazed at how few things were not connected to a cartoon, a Disney character or a children's TV show. Even trucks and balls had corporate entertainment crap all over them.
Mike came by his dislike of commercialism and greed honestly. I wanted to stop people in the narrow aisles and shake them. My grandkids always got craft and art supplies and books, and they loved them. They get a big kick out of my anti-commercialism, especially when Mike chimed in to complain with me.
It took me over an hour to find a half dozen gifts that didn't connect to TV or the movies. I got a Nerf football, Crayons, a plain old truck (Tonka) and Legos. I wound up getting a Hulk figure because the kid is crazy about the Hulk.
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