[Sca-cooks] The noise of modern life

[Stefan li Rous]

Vitha commented:
> What is it with people buying perishable items when they KNOW the
> power is going to go out...

Uh, they still have barrels and barrels of stuff from the 2000 scare  
and they felt they had to buy *something*? Hey, Baron Akim? Are you  
still listening to this list? Have you finished off your millennium  
cache, yet? :-)

> The thing I remember the most was the silence of no compressors, no
> hum of the electrical lines.  It was almost spooky.

Have you been to Pennsic? I think there have been two major power  
outages during different Pennsics, and except for a few "street  
lights" near the central buildings and such, it was hard to know  
there was a major regional blackout going on.

I imagine though that if you were suddenly thrown back into the  
Middle Ages, it might be the different sounds that you would notice  
the most. Of course, I imagine the smells would be rather different  
as well.

Stefan
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