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Who turned the lights off?

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  Past month we had several hours without electricity. Imagine yourself from morning to afternoon without lights, without a cold water to drink, or even without water because no electricity for a long time means any water. It’s not easy to get used to this situation, the beginning it’s so hard, I remember my first experience two years ago, I was reading and then everything was turned off! I froze and I thought to myself: “wow, its happening”! Since that day until now I learned to spend my “ecofriendly” hours with a good sense of humor. I listen to the silence, I disconnected from the high tech world, I read more, and the amazing thing happens – I have time to do nothing, or almost nothing! It’s a break from the rush hours! Of course sometimes I don’t like it, when I am too busy to wait, or to do nothing, sometimes I can’t afford the ecofriendly hours but still is not that horrible. We always get used to everything! Many houses have their own generator, we have 2! One pro...