I write this article came through two days after Hurricane Irene. I have no power or telephone service. I charged my phone in the car. I will briefly head of the library on my laptop and use their free Internet access.
We were lucky when it came to Irene. We knew the hurricane came, and took the time to plan and prepare. We knew it was a good possibility that we could lose power and even water. We have preventive measures and calculates our cell phones and laptops. We made sure we had flashlights and batteries, and no one knew where they were. We filled bottles with water and put something that could “escape”.
The storm came and a lot of damage here in New Jersey, but my house was spared. In the grand scheme of things, of losing power was only an inconvenience, especially because we were ready.
Fortunately, hurricanes do not happen very often (at least not in New Jersey) and if they do we do a lot of warning. In our society, we are not always so lucky. Emergencies occur more all the time.
Some emergencies are good news. For example, you will be asked to fill in the last minute on a radio show. It is very exciting, but you have little time to get everything together. Or take bring a new customer to find and crawl to access all the documents together so you can start.
