No Power for 24 Hours

So...I live in the midwest in the middle of nowhere IL where I go to school and today our power went out at 7:30ish in the pm and is expected to be out til tomorrow at 7:45 pm. Apparently 96,000 people are without power. I'm not sure if it is people or households. So my phone has been off and I have been using my laptop conservatively. IN order to do homework I have now had to start going to the library and to use internet, I have to go to the library also.

It's weird because if I got one street south of where my apartment is, I would have power my refridgerator would be working I wouldnt have to conserve phone battery and I could use my laptop or internet. It's difficult to say if some of my classes will be able to function tomorrow without the power.

The power outage was caused by severe thunderstorms and winds of around 60 mph. There was a tornado warnind and the closest the tornado go to us was 6 miles. Which is very close in my opinion. It is really scary to walk around outside because it is so dark and I have candles lit all over the place and in the bathrooms.

It's really weird how sometimes life puts you in a place where you have to think about things. In the dark and when the storms were at there worst I sort of though of the time as reflection time. I kind of thought about things like what I would do if something flew in the window or where I should go if the apartment was penetrated somehow.

Natural disasters really make you think sometimes and its stuff like how lucky I am have lived in chicago where things like this arent that big of an issue or where my house in chicago has a basement that is more suited for tornados than an apartment building (even though my apartme is on the first floor) I really was thinking about how lucky I was to have experienced the things I had and my boyfriend made a good point when I was like "what about your car? What if it gets damaged" He said something along the lines of..."my car isn't important at a time like this. It is more important that we're together and safe." and that really made me think. Sometimes I really feel like hes the most composed person I know and I feel really lucky that he's mine.

-Kt