Some days I spend about 10 - 15 minutes outside. Sad, but true. It takes about 5 minutes to get from the train station to work, and about 2 minutes between the station and home. I work in an airCditioned building (the air Cditioning is old, but it usually works...) and our house is very weatherproof. So rain and wind are not things that have an IMPACT on me. When I used to cycle everywhere, the weather forecast was the most interesting and important information I got from the radio. Now, I usually don't care a lot.
This past week with the rain and Wind, I've gone back to caring. My quiet little urban life has been interrupted by weather. The trains have been stopped for all of Monday, and stopped again on Saturday night due to high winds. And the power has been off twice as well. Saturday it was off for four hours - gas cooking is such a wonderful thing when the power goes off. And the TV arial fell down - but we don't have a TV, nor did we have power, so that certainly didn't qualify as a crisis.
It's made me realise that my little urban shell is insulated against the weather, and that that isulation can be breached. When the protection goes in urbanlife, the resources are much smaller than I had in the country. No wells, no open fires, no vegetable garden, no animals I'd eat. Insulated, but vulnerable.
Posted by Toni at February 23, 2004 06:50 AM