Total Darkness

                               Have you ever been in total darkness?
            Like when you are deep into a cave and your light goes out?

it would probably look something like this

I received a call from our electric company yesterday saying they would be shutting down the grid to thousands of customers homes in our area. This was to upgrade the system to be able to handle emergencies better. Well this was to take place at 11pm last night and last until 4am this morning.

I told my husband of this and decided to shut down my computer and unplug it around 6:30pm. Since he was still working on his computer, he asked I keep the power on. So eventually I went off to bed only to be awakened by my hubby at 11:30pm with him asking me "Did you shut down the computer because it's now completely dark?" 

                                          HELLO !!!!!!!
                              Wake me up?
                                     From a deep sleep?
                                           Into pitch black?
                                 What was he thinking?
                          Oh my Gosh..... I am now in panic mode.
                 I cannot breath, I cannot see anything.
                                         What's going on?
I am trying to get my senses about me. Am I awake? Am I dreaming? I know I am breathing really hard right now, trying to figure things out.  I soon hear my hubby sound asleep, snoring as if nothing in the world is wrong.
               I can't breath. I am feeling as though someone has buried me alive. There is no light anywhere, the air is being sucked out of my space.

I am like this for what feels like forever, only just minutes have passed and suddenly my hand is reaching over to my bedside table and suddenly finds a flashlight. (I keep one there all the time, duh), I grab it, jump up out of bed, turn it on and proceed to the bathroom. After relieving myself (thankfully not any sooner) and now with light in hand, I walk back to the bedroom, open the blinds and stare up at the stars.
                               Thank you God.
                                   I can breathe again.

With all the darkness, everything around me seems to be gone, but there is still light up above. I have Hope.

And here, just when I thought I was becoming a fairly good "Prepper", it turns out that I was totally not prepared for this.

Is it because I truely fear the total darkness?
Or because I was woken up so unexpectantly? I dare say, a little of both.

You ask yourself, how do I prepare for something like this if it were to happen again?

                                     Are your ready?


              Lock the damn husband out of the bedroom.
 
                                 That's how I'd do it.

                                   How about you?