Idiots in the Northeast...

I was reading a story about the power outages in the Northeast this week. People stuck in elevators. Subways stopped. Etc. Very ho-hum stuff. That was until I saw a quick blurb on CNN . It told about how in the first 24 hours or so there over 3000 calls to fire departments in the affected area. What were these calls about? Fires. People were causing fires in their own homes. How? Candles. These idiots hadn't yet mastered fire. The technology of the candle eluded them. They were unable to control fire. I just about laughed my ass off.

Take away electricity and people are unable to take care of themselves. Modern man has no survival skills at all it seems. My family keeps enough supplies on hand to last at least a week without utilities. It's amazing how few people keep even a couple days supplies ready.

We had a 3 hour power outage in our neighborhood a few months ago. Once we decided it was gonna last more than a few minutes, I fired up a camping lantern and within 2 minutes we had a neighbor knocking asking if we had power. 'Um, no, we are just prepared for these things. Here we have a spare. You can borrow it'. I then had to teach them how to operate a simple camping lantern. No, you don't just flip a switch to get light. *sigh*