The
lights in the bg here are also battery operated
About 9 hours after the power first went out on Christmas Eve and it was still raining, we figured that it takes longer to do repairs when technicians are rooting around in the dark and also have power tools that operate almost 100% by electricity.
18
hours later we were decidedly more impatient, as were (when I went to the
carriers’ Disqus page) several other customers in several other parts of the
country so they couldn’t just blame it on the East Coast outage.
I
called and was able to get customer service – but when she said she was going
to connect me to an actual person in tech support, the extension AI voice
unceremoniously dismissed AND disconnected me
Then
we wondered given the fact that the outage did NOT appear to be limited to our
flood-stricken area but appeared in addition to be a sustained problem in
several other far-flung areas of the country going back several weeks to boot.
As
it turns out … I put the Tweets describing what people suspect are Russian
attacks connected to their recent infiltration of several of our national
departments in comments, because it turns out that just because you’re paranoid
it doesn’t mean people (or transnational crime syndicates, as it happens) still
aren’t after you.
And
now the cable and internet are out again.
And
we’re not the worst off of the people we know as this WH dangles relief for
millions (probably at Putin’s instruction).
But
joy in the face of attempts to oppress is still defiance
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