It’s already easy to lose track of the days when you are aware from home but once the power goes out and days become basically hours with daylight and hours with dark, it’s easy to get disoriented and lose track of the time. Our power was off for 4 days, 4 hours (not a long time compared to many who still have no power and no indication of when they will have it again) and I was petrified that I was going to have to leave for the airport with my mom still sitting in a dark yet overheated house.

At one point yesterday I was just laying on the floor in the living room. The hardwood floor was relatively cool. Heat rises and all that. I was contemplating the possibility that the air temperature in the house could reach body temperature. I tried to convince myself that that was some sort of cosmic unity, the body and nature melding, reconnecting. Then I realized I was likely getting loopy from the heat. Or the lack of food. I just didn’t feel like eating much and cooking (thanks to my gas stove) by flashlight loses the novelty after the first couple of times. I do not recommend the hurricane diet.