serendipity

is that what you call it? The Green administration that had come in through the last election had targeted the depressed rural counties with clean energy projects......our town got a company in from Brazil to help finance a factory making the clever gravity-tap generators that the kids in California had come up with......so when we got sliced off from the grid.....and from the rest of our old reality.....we at least had some way to get electricity. The factory couldn't sell their units to the emerging nations like they had been planning to do, since there wasn't any money any more to begin with.....and no more emerging nations either.....so they just went ahead and gave away the stock they had ready to go to the folks around here......We've got ours sitting out in the back yard......just yanked the city meter off the wall and wired the house up to the tap after the factory boys had calibrated it to the local deep gravity phase-shift, or whatever.....anyway, it works.....there's only one channel on the TV though, from the College.....and one radio station, from Public Safety......

But things could have been a hell of lot worse.....we could be reading by candle light I guess....as it is, most cooking gets done on a wood fire of some sort, since there isn't any natural gas flowing anymore, and an electric range draws down the tap pretty fast.....you have to be careful with your current flow.....most folks run the fridge first, and then go from there......no more central heat and air.....except at the hospital, where they have a whole big bank of units.....

And it's a good thing this county had some good breeding stock on a few of the close in farms......you take the engine and all out of a pick-up truck, and then it might be light enough for a team of horses to pull it out into the woods......so you can get firewood for the winter.....a lot of closed up old fireplaces got renovated around town.....

And I use a bit of wood keeping the still going......good thing my grandpa had left all that stuff in the big shed......whisky makes a pretty decent currency in a barter economy......