The Lights Went Out In Huizhou

Today the electricity went out in the whole city.  No reason just went out.  This has happened a few other times since we have been here and according to Jodie this happens a lot over the summer.  Today it happened just as I was washing my hands and about to head out the door.  I had hands soaking in soap when I realized that the power being out means that the water doesn’t work.  I cleaned my hand with a wet nap and headed out the door of our apartment on the 24^th floor during a power outage.  Thank goodness our lift has a generator (I figured this out because the two men I shared the lift with were speaking about how they were annoyed that the power went out for lunch time and discussing how the lift had a generator…I assume).  I am not looking forward to more outages over the summer…my water still isn’t really flowing 9 hours later and it seemed like it took forever to cool the apartment off since the ac doesn’t turn on automatically when the electricity comes on.