Power Outage

Having lived in Hurricane Alley on the NC coast during the 1990s while serving First Christian, Wilmington, I’ve experienced hurricanes. Hugo made landfall north of Charleston, SC, the year our family arrived in Wilmington (1989). In ensuing years, Bertha (1996), Fran (1996), and Bonnie (1998) came a-callin’.

The first two questions that proceed from people’s mouths after a hurricane are 1) Are you all right? and 2) Do you have power?  Power as in electricity, which after hurricanes we were without for anywhere from hours to days to weeks.