Life without electricity.

It has been some 130 years since Thomas Edison’s breakthrough of artificial light. According to the "World Energy Outlook 2009" an estimated 79% of the people in third world countries (the 50 poorest nations) have no access to electricity. This means that the total number of individuals without electric power is about 1.5 billion, or a quarter of the world's population, concentrated mostly in Africa and southern Asia. In 14 nations worldwide, less than 10% of people have the option to use modern cooking fuels, relying instead on wood scavenged from the countryside. All told, about 2.5 billion people globally subsist on wood or charcoal. So what does this mean for us? Absolutely nothing; but we have been so dependent on electricity for generations now that when it goes away, life ends. How many of you have all the necessity things to survive a power outage? Look around your home and think: cooking, lighting, warmth, water supply, ect… The reason I bring this up to you is today this was our predicament. Around 10am this morning a middle aged male was driving down the road and had a seizure. He veered off the road taking out a tree and ultimately a power poll. This shut down power to our little tent trailer among all the other homes and businesses in the area. We were without tv and internet till 11:30 tonight! These things are many peoples main concern in America. But as nightfall arrived, we needed light, heat, refrigeration... Throughout our thoughts of what to do, we found that many ways we thought we could survive, we could not. When was the last time you trained on a true power outage. Think about things beyond the basics of candles and canned food. Do things you have for emergencies still work, fit, and perform like they should? Have things changed in your life and now new needs rely on power? Just purely food for thought. Now get out there and flip that main off and do some homework; or just don’t pay your bill for a month and truly play!