urbanism

I once visited a friend in Texas who lived in a subdivision where the power went out nearly every day at some point during the middle of the day, like 350 or so days per year. Like 1 PM, bam, power goes out and flickers on a couple of times over a 20 minute period before it's back. And everyone I spoke with thought it was an entirely normal thing that they just plan their life around and simply have everything they own aside from lights and 240v major appliances either on a UPS or power strip, even things like their toaster. Nobody bothers resetting the clock on the oven or microwave or anything because it's just gonna get messed up again tomorrow.