Black Out!

Island wide BLACK OUT!  We were eating dinner at Ala Moana.    We had just finished getting our food when the lights went out.   We stayed and ate our dinner in the dark! =) We didn't have a problem getting out of the parking lot at Ala Moana. We got home around 10 pm and we had a blast at home playing board games with Grandma Goo. Warrior 3 was happy playing with his Legos! We were okay. I'm grateful for propane!

I am grateful that I grew up experiencing black outs or brown outs. Just like the Board of Water Supply telling us to conserve water that night because once we run out....that is it. That's because we need electricity to refill our reservoir.  In the Philippines,  we often pumped buckets of water once our reserve in the tank ran out. Since we needed electricity to refill our "TANKE".  This is actually the same pump we used growing up  minus the PVC pipe.  We took turns pumping..it was actually fun until we got tired. The Goo Babes and I went home to the Philippines a year and a half ago and the pump still exist  and serving its purpose.    Can you believe that they don't pay for water in the Philippines?  Well, that's if you pumped your own water.    We were fortunate enough to have both growing up.  Some still don't have running water and would have to walk to the nearest water pump station which could be a block or so away.  Anyway...I am  very blessed to be  living  here in "ESTADOS UNIDOS".  We have it easy.  All the comforts and conveniences in life.  I can't complain.  Oh, yeah..that's Warrior 2 in the background.

In Guam, when typhoons hit the island, sometimes we go on for weeks with no power. So this black out was nothing.    The electricity was only out for 20 hours.