Where's the Power?
Nearly twenty-five years ago- though it hardly seems possible that it could have been that long ago- something happened which those of us living in Charlotte, NC at the time will never, ever forget: Hurricane Hugo hit with all the force that nature could possibly lash out at us- or so it seemed. And we realized, I think...at least most of us did...that we were in the grips of something over which we had no control...not a comfortable place for us humans, to say the least. I remember looking out the windows at the rear of my house in the pre-dawn hours of that Friday morning, hearing the roar of the wind, and watching the rain come straight toward the windows...and realizing that no matter what I did, I could not stop that storm! There was a sense of real powerlessness in that... a sense of being very dependent...very powerless. And most of us living in Charlotte experienced what it was like to literally be without power, as the electricity went out- and st...