From Denny: Have you ever noticed that when you go off the grid your mind turns to comedy? OK, during a hurricane the mind often slides on down toward dark humor.
After all, your brain is geared up to engage with technology and suddenly finds itself in total withdrawal. And, it's a good thing that humor was created. It's the best weapon in the human arsenal for survival.
I went off the grid for three days - and hot sweaty nights - during the very long week of Hurricane Isaac. Over a million homes lost power in Louisiana during the storm. Our house was fortunate and did not experience flooding or damage during the high humidity and 90 plus temperatures - pure misery.
The power and the air conditioning blissfully came back on late Friday night - and then lost it again on Sunday for half a day in a blistering 95-degree heat before it was restored. The American energy grid is a sorry patchwork of aging infrastructure. No matter how much Congress gets yelled at from our house they still sit on their hands, refusing to rebuild a smarter vision across the nation - and bring the technology into this century.
