Saturday, August 18, 2007

On to more mundane matters

The electricity on my block went out at least a dozen times today. Sometimes only for a second, rarely for more than three or four seconds.

I live in an inner-city area where it would be just so damn unfair to shareholders to expect OG&E to provide reliable electric service.

But I don't see why rain should cause flickering and brownouts.

4 comments:

NonSense Sonja said...

smile... before i moved to america a year ago, i alredy was knowing that this here is happend often... possible the only reason for that is for give the other `educated` rest of the world something to make fun of...

but hapend also by me, it went out...

by the way, thanks for showing up at my party, you was an great guest

mcarp said...

You're welcome.

I drank too much.

Anonymous said...

Good thing you do not live in any other area of the world. In Dehli, a city four times the size of NYC, there are mandatory rolling blackouts where everyone in the city (except the very rich and/or government officials) experiencing 8 hours of no electricity. On certain days there is NO electricity at all. Then you have Africa..............

Really, we may be UNFORTUNATE we are so lucky to have such reliable utilties. That may come to an end someday.

NonSense Sonja said...

well, people can allways make the line up to the worstes places in world, at the end there will turn out that there can not be anything left over to complain about...
an city like oklahoma city normaly should be able NOT having so many electicity problems...
seems to be an well forward country, this america, smile...