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Hurricane Isabel took away
our power here in Amissville for two days and an early winter storm several years ago caused an outage for five days.
For all the lovers of darkness I guess these interruptions could be desirable but for myself growing up in South Dakota in the 1930s it brought back memories of long nights of darkness from sundown till sun up.
Kerosene lamps and lanterns were not that great. When my grandparents received an Aladdin lamp on their 50th anniversary it was like a miracle to have enough light that we could stay up late to play games, read and write. Later when we moved into a small town that had real electric fights powered by a small local power plant on a nearby river it was like another miracle.
When we moved to Amissville 35 years ago we had a security light installed just like our neighbors. We don’t have to live and work in the dark anymore and when a fellow citizen wants to lay in their pickup at night to enjoy their stargazing hobby that’s fine but don’t make the rest of us pay by dimming our fights. People raised in the country appreciate and eiyoy their fights maybe more than city raised folks so be considerate of your country neighbors and
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