On 6/16/2017 10:09 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> We don't have many power outages here and they rarely last for more a
> few hours at the most, but silence with absolutely nothing running to
> make even a whisper of noise is almost eerie. I enjoy it in the
> daytime, but find it difficult to fall asleep if the power is out
> when I'm in bed. I think many of us are so accustomed to things like
> refrigerators and freezers, ceiling fans, air filters, etc., that we
> lose our awareness of them.

Well, if you had a hurricane (that would be quite an accomplishment in
Phoenix!) you'd likely lose power for a few days. But yes, it's amazing
what you hear when there isn't that underlying hum of electricity.
We've become conditioned to the refrigerator and such.

I heard the hummingbirds buzzing around during the day, other birds
chirping. Owls hooting at night and Chuck Will's Widows, too. (Lots of
night-birds around here.)

I'm like you, however. I find it difficult to sleep when it's
completely silent. In the normal course of things I always have the
ceiling fan running.

Fortunately power outages are few and far between. If the power goes
off in the middle of the night I wake up immediately. The sound of
silence is pretty loud.

Jill