There was a bomb cyclone this week in Colorado. Also known as an explosive cyclogenesis, this system creates a huge drop in pressure and creates crazy weather. We had 70 mile an hour wind gusts and hundreds of thousands of people lost power.
We were one of the households that lost power. We were fine Wednesday, snuggled up and watching movies. When the power went out I pretty much went to bed. Since then I have struggled to keep things together with the kids. They were off school Thursday and the house was like ice. I made the executive decision to take a day off and move us to a hotel. Our power was finally restored this morning. We were the last block in the area to be without power. I like to think my tweeting the energy company at 6am helped them figure some things out.
It has only been a few days, but I had to get rid of all my freezer goods. Everything had thawed and was refreezing. Hello, dangerous meat!
Then I started thinking about Puerto Rico and the water in Flint, Michigan. We had three days and were going crazy. I have enough money to get us to hotels. Other families had to go to shelters. We are lucky. All we lost was dangerous meat. The fish and hamster survived. Refugees don't get the options we had. Yes, we were cold and miserable, but it was brief.
The world is a messy place and natural phenomena make it messier. I feel like there are not enough answers and the US infrastructure is not in a good place these day. Some of the potholes on Denver streets are large enough to swallow small children and yet we voted against measures to fix streets. So much of this is the unwillingness on the part of some humans to help humans who don't resemble them so much. But all of us get sick from dangerous meat and all of us need water and shelter.
I have had a lot of conversations the past few days with people who lost power or didn't and we bonded. I hope that something as awful sounding as a bomb cyclone can leave us feeling more like a community.
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