Column by Hal Walter
Mountain Life -March 2006 -Colorado Central Magazine
There’s a certain sensory commotion when the power goes out, a simultaneous loss of light and sound followed by the whir of kitchen appliances coming to a stop. When you’ve lived in the mountains for any length of time, there’s also a certain automatic course of action –the initial cursing, followed by a scramble to fill every available container with drinking water before the well’s pressure tank loses force, then the search for flashlights, candles, campstove, etc.
