pretty gloomy when the power gets knocked out and the house gets slowly colder and colder and darker and darker and the battery runs lower and lower on this devic

I like reading books. www.paperclypse.com

Hang in there, fellow Portlander. Worst conditions I've seen in many years. Hopefully not too much longer before power is fully restored.

Writer, senior editor, music journalist, labor/commons advocate, GenX eldergoth, Zorbsplainer. Cohost of /slowcore-hq. https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

Almost 72 hrs w/o full power here. Cold food spoiled; living on pantry goods/emergency stash. Luckily I still have 2 working outlets for space heaters/laptop. Still sucks.

Almost 72 hrs w/o full power here. Cold food spoiled; living on pantry goods/emergency stash. Luckily I still have 2 working outlets for space heaters/laptop. Still sucks. 

https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2024/01/as-power-outages-drag-into-4th-day-portland-area-residents-angry-with-pges-communication-glitches.html

I wrote that after got power back. Was reflecting on the outage. nothing like a power outage to inspire gratitude for electricity