I agree with both of you but cable is crazy.  We can thank that to Mobile city council (Outlaw/  Dow) years ago for not letting in other cable companys…

During most of the hurricanes, I lose power.  A couple of days without and I am ready to go bonkers, or move to the mountains!

The old guy in the documentary said he knew how to get along.  He said he did have water, but if he lost that he would just collect rainwater and keep on truckin’.

It was a very bittersweet story and worth watching the next time PBS has it on.

Alot of the times you never realize what you have until you lose it or come close to losing it. That’s the old Swamp Dweller coming out in me.

I watched this show on PBS last night about this 78-year-old guy re-building his home in the 9th Ward of New Orleans.  He had no electricity and he just kept plugging away.  It was amazing and a reminder of how easy it is to take such things as electricity for granted.

It seems each state should have it’s own independant power companies but i don’t know how that would work out on reliability.I never did like paying a little higher rates for power so they could provide power to a neighboring state.I gripe about the power bill each month but almost 100% of the time it’s there when you need it and it provides a lot of needed jobs locally but I think it could be a bit better.

I’m in MediaCom zone.  That is kind of strange.  Why can’t they compete?  AT&T got busted to smithereens years ago.  What’s the deal with cable companies?

I wish I had my choice of power companies though.

Why are the utility companies allowed to dominate the way that they do?

For example: I see all these commercials for Cox cable, and they have deals WAY better than Comcast, but I’m not allowed to get Cox cable because I live in Comcast’s zone.

Things usually don’t stay that long in our fridge!I left the food world people laughing the other day when I had a little conversation with a certain roasted chicken in my cart.Sort of like Scar in lion king,” lifes not fair,I never will be king and you will never see the sunset”.

Just opening my fridge would probably scare them back to kerosene lamps.  Being a lazy single guy, I keep a lot of science projects in my fridge.  In fact, there is a pizza in there now that is about to sprout legs and kick my butt!

I bet I could break them from sucking eggs!Come a trotting up in front of their camera in my boxers and a scratching that booty.