LIVING IN A FURNACE IN A BLACKOUT
We live in a small town in Nevada called Las Vegas. It features things like gambling, beautiful hotels with something for every taste in both architecture and food choices from around the world. Sounds great doesn’t it? Well, for the most part it is but with one glaring exception. What’s that you ask? Thanks for asking. It’s the weather.
The weather in Las Vegas in the summer is abusively hot and sometimes abusively humid as well. From mid-June through late-September, it is not unusual for the temperature to exceed 100+ degrees. To us that’s 4 months of living in a furnace.
Of course our world is dependent on air conditioning for survival. So what happens when a blackout occurs as it recently did in July? At approximately 11 PM everything went out all at once. The temperature at the time was 111 degrees. The lights, air conditioning, computers and nothing was sacred. It was especially devastating for my wife who was in the middle of a large project and had it wiped out instantly. For me it was also a disaster. The heat and the humidity too felt like a blanket over my entire soul. I couldn’t eat and or sleep. I was cranky, even my dog was cranky and, unlike me, my wife who had lost that giant file, was benevolent about the whole thing. It felt like the world was closing in on me. I felt claustrophobic and at that moment time I hated living here. It truly felt like I was living in a furnace with no way to escape. The real truth is that although I’m not a gambler, I really like living here most of the time.
BUT, approximately three hours later, the power was restored. I thought to myself: HOORAY, it’s finally over. Technically I was right but then I realized that every clock in the house except for the ones on the computers, had to be reset manually. Now I don’t know about you but I never knew how many clocks we had until my wife and I had to reset them all. TV’s, VCR’s, tape players, all the clocks including the stove, coffee maker and even the fax machine.
All in all an experience I don’t wish on anyone else (unless it’s someone I really don’t like very much).
Bruce Fein is the author of “Jumbo Shrimp, The Ultimate Oxymoron Book”. It is his compilation of 100 four color humorous illustrations of oxymoronic humor. It is available only through his website: “theworldaccordingtobruce.com @ $9.97 per copy.
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