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Think no, Think again, the following REQUIRE electricity to function:
1. Your banks, your ATM's. Both require electricity to function, and maintain thier database, no electricity, no bank, no bank, no transactions, no transactions, chaos etc.
2. The local H20/ Water Company. Yep, if you're local water authority looses power, no water will be pumped to anyone anywhere. Toilets will not flush, showers will not work, sinks and faucets will become useless. The water authorities gigantic pumps rely on the local electric compnay.
3. Your job. Its highly unlikely that any job out there dose not require electricity or power in any form. No electricity, no work.
4. GAS, this is a really big one. Gas pumps, Gas companies, any and everything that has to do with gas requires electricity. No electricity, no way to make gas pumps operate, thus no one can travel.
5. Fridges and grocery stores. Uncanned, unsealed food like meats, chicken, poultry, etc, no good.
Last year, all the power in my County and half the CIty's went completely out. This was caused by just one small fuse breaking. During this time, it was Dark, really really dark. No street lights, no lights anywhere except for cars. Nothing to light the roads or road lines up. No gas stations worked.
I want to know what some of you out there think about our dependance on Electricity. Are any of you out there prepared in the event of a terrorist attack?
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Thanks everyone! All are excellent answers. I too agree with many of you are saying. It just scares me. If one were so inclined, they could bring a city or county to its knees if they blew the electrical plant up. What then? : 0
Answer
We are only totally dependent on electricity, if we allow ourselves to be. I like electricity just as much as the next person. I have high-blood pressure, so that air conditioner is really nice, I love ice so I like my refrigerator also. the light switch is handy. All of these things have quickly came about or been improved on in my life time. Gas stations (up-graded), it doesn't seem all that long ago to me when you had an attendant come & fill your tank. When I worked in my Uncle's grocery store when I was a girl he had a cash register that didn't go out when the electricity did & I didn't go home either. There was a kerosene light on a wall fixture right behind me. I could count back change as fast or faster than you get your receipt from a computerized one. I remember when my grandmother's first gas kitchen stove came, grandma was so happy. I'm so used to my nice electric range w/push buttons, we have an all electric home. Well last fall when the electricity went out, I was cooking with wood, lighting with candles. Ice kept things cool & I got my broom out. I washed clothes by hand in luke warm water because boiling water out-side & carrying it in is more work than I want to do all the time. My grandmother did it though. She had a wood stove inside, a well that pumped into the kitchen (luxury), a wash tub & scrub board & 2 clothes lines in the back room of the house where a lot of work was done. I could have used some of those things when the electric was out but I did alright. The banks had the same types of registers as my Uncles store had. The woman did the paper work with paper & pencil right in front of you, they couldn't say, "oh the computer made a mistake", I do get tired of hearing that, especially after I've waited on an animated system for an actual person for 45 min.'s & that's my answer. The answer they usually get is, "some one put the numbers in the computer."
I guess (I know) life is a lot easier now than ever I can remember. People are fatter, more heart attacks, less common sense, (not because they don't have it, just because they don't have to use it). I know exactly what you are saying, I keep a ground line telephone, so I can call the company for all the neighbors when their phones go dead with the electricity. I remember when a telephone was a luxury, & then it was party-lines. Not the kind of phone parties some have now, but it was busy a lot. Don't be thinking, "this old woman should be dead at her age" I've still got some living I want to do. I've got 23 grandchildren & watching them marry & have children. I've got one grandchild that only the good Lord & me know will come & I want to stay around to rock that one.
If we had to go back to older machinery, that wasn't all electric, I believe the American people could do it. We'd all miss conveniences, but it could be done. I couldn't use my air-conditioner this last summer because our income had been greatly reduced, I was pretty miserable, but I didn't die.
I'm glad I had all of the ice I wanted though. You have to keep government up-to-date with all the new inventions, but I think my little lap-top is as high-tec as I'll get. It's nothing really but something to keep my fingers limber & my mind (as old fashion as it is) still thinking, but I get a kick out of it. The young people are so, "way out there", but then they think, what planet is she from? Well I've told you a lot of things you already know & don't want to do, & I don't blame you, but we don't have to have as much electric as we take for granted is ours. It's nice though, & I'm as guilty as the next, so I'm sure not judging (just fact)....You have a wonderful day & God Bless
We are only totally dependent on electricity, if we allow ourselves to be. I like electricity just as much as the next person. I have high-blood pressure, so that air conditioner is really nice, I love ice so I like my refrigerator also. the light switch is handy. All of these things have quickly came about or been improved on in my life time. Gas stations (up-graded), it doesn't seem all that long ago to me when you had an attendant come & fill your tank. When I worked in my Uncle's grocery store when I was a girl he had a cash register that didn't go out when the electricity did & I didn't go home either. There was a kerosene light on a wall fixture right behind me. I could count back change as fast or faster than you get your receipt from a computerized one. I remember when my grandmother's first gas kitchen stove came, grandma was so happy. I'm so used to my nice electric range w/push buttons, we have an all electric home. Well last fall when the electricity went out, I was cooking with wood, lighting with candles. Ice kept things cool & I got my broom out. I washed clothes by hand in luke warm water because boiling water out-side & carrying it in is more work than I want to do all the time. My grandmother did it though. She had a wood stove inside, a well that pumped into the kitchen (luxury), a wash tub & scrub board & 2 clothes lines in the back room of the house where a lot of work was done. I could have used some of those things when the electric was out but I did alright. The banks had the same types of registers as my Uncles store had. The woman did the paper work with paper & pencil right in front of you, they couldn't say, "oh the computer made a mistake", I do get tired of hearing that, especially after I've waited on an animated system for an actual person for 45 min.'s & that's my answer. The answer they usually get is, "some one put the numbers in the computer."
I guess (I know) life is a lot easier now than ever I can remember. People are fatter, more heart attacks, less common sense, (not because they don't have it, just because they don't have to use it). I know exactly what you are saying, I keep a ground line telephone, so I can call the company for all the neighbors when their phones go dead with the electricity. I remember when a telephone was a luxury, & then it was party-lines. Not the kind of phone parties some have now, but it was busy a lot. Don't be thinking, "this old woman should be dead at her age" I've still got some living I want to do. I've got 23 grandchildren & watching them marry & have children. I've got one grandchild that only the good Lord & me know will come & I want to stay around to rock that one.
If we had to go back to older machinery, that wasn't all electric, I believe the American people could do it. We'd all miss conveniences, but it could be done. I couldn't use my air-conditioner this last summer because our income had been greatly reduced, I was pretty miserable, but I didn't die.
I'm glad I had all of the ice I wanted though. You have to keep government up-to-date with all the new inventions, but I think my little lap-top is as high-tec as I'll get. It's nothing really but something to keep my fingers limber & my mind (as old fashion as it is) still thinking, but I get a kick out of it. The young people are so, "way out there", but then they think, what planet is she from? Well I've told you a lot of things you already know & don't want to do, & I don't blame you, but we don't have to have as much electric as we take for granted is ours. It's nice though, & I'm as guilty as the next, so I'm sure not judging (just fact)....You have a wonderful day & God Bless
What is the weirdest dream YOU have ever had?
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Mine oh jeez it was weird but I was on a cruise ship and everything was the color blue. So then then I running really fast down one of the hallways and then a really old lady grabs me a pulls me into a room and it's dark, I turn on a light and its my dads house. All of my brother friends are there watching football and doing really weird things and for some reason I wanted them to leave and they wouldn't soooooooooo I did really weird stuff to get them out of my house and I bit one of his friends named Connor and then he screamed.
Then I woke and laughed really hard, had no clue what it means
Any way tell your weirdest, scariest, funniest anything!
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The weirdest, and most vivid, dream I've ever had went like this:
I was about 7 years old at the time of the dream. Me and my extended family went on vacation to a tropical island. We stayed in a luxury hotel, and one of the activities offered was a phony reenactment of a tribe that used to live on the island. My whole family went to see the show, and we watched it from inside these individual, cubicle-like rock structures. People dressed in stereotypical islander clothes (grass skirts, loin clothes, body paint, etc.) danced around a fire, and then this guy who was also part of the reenactment and who was wearing this huge green feathered headdress stood on top of this tall podium made of stone and spoke in some nonexistent language. All the sudden the walls of the rock cubicles closed in and crushed us all to death. It went dark for a while, then I woke up (still in my dream) to find that I was back in my house and that me and my entire family vampires with superpowers (I had this dream in like 2002, so it had nothing to do with Twilight, but we were essentially Twilight vampires without the sparkles.) Also, for some reason, we all wore black uniforms with lime green accents. I tested my new powers my running super fast into my friend's house at like 4am, but I didn't wake anyone up because I was also super stealthy. Then I met up with my little cousin (around 5 at the time) who was crying because her friends were scared of her now that she had these powers. My whole family was really sad about being ostracized by human society. Suddenly I had this vision of a big red jewel that for some reason could turn us back into humans again. I set off of find this jewel, and my bright idea was to sneak into a post office to try to find the address of the museum the jewel was located in. I hid in a big bin full of letters until this large, unattractive, middle-aged woman who worked in the post office found me. I convinced her to help me, and she told me to stay in the bin and that she could mail me to the museum, so she started wheeling me around in the bin and then I woke up in real life. Strange...
The weirdest, and most vivid, dream I've ever had went like this:
I was about 7 years old at the time of the dream. Me and my extended family went on vacation to a tropical island. We stayed in a luxury hotel, and one of the activities offered was a phony reenactment of a tribe that used to live on the island. My whole family went to see the show, and we watched it from inside these individual, cubicle-like rock structures. People dressed in stereotypical islander clothes (grass skirts, loin clothes, body paint, etc.) danced around a fire, and then this guy who was also part of the reenactment and who was wearing this huge green feathered headdress stood on top of this tall podium made of stone and spoke in some nonexistent language. All the sudden the walls of the rock cubicles closed in and crushed us all to death. It went dark for a while, then I woke up (still in my dream) to find that I was back in my house and that me and my entire family vampires with superpowers (I had this dream in like 2002, so it had nothing to do with Twilight, but we were essentially Twilight vampires without the sparkles.) Also, for some reason, we all wore black uniforms with lime green accents. I tested my new powers my running super fast into my friend's house at like 4am, but I didn't wake anyone up because I was also super stealthy. Then I met up with my little cousin (around 5 at the time) who was crying because her friends were scared of her now that she had these powers. My whole family was really sad about being ostracized by human society. Suddenly I had this vision of a big red jewel that for some reason could turn us back into humans again. I set off of find this jewel, and my bright idea was to sneak into a post office to try to find the address of the museum the jewel was located in. I hid in a big bin full of letters until this large, unattractive, middle-aged woman who worked in the post office found me. I convinced her to help me, and she told me to stay in the bin and that she could mail me to the museum, so she started wheeling me around in the bin and then I woke up in real life. Strange...
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