Power Cuts Are Shaping Our Habits

A nice piece in the Daily Star on the struggles of everyday life with power cuts. Some experiences are familiar to many of us:

Sometimes she will plan to go to the market herself when she knows the elevator will be running, so that she does not have to carry the groceries or butane tank up the stairs.[…] She makes just enough food for what the kids will eat so that she won’t have any leftovers, because her refrigerator is usually off […] Her choice of where to spend the day depends on whether there is electricity for her to ride the elevator up to her son’s second-floor apartment.

A Daily humiliation familiar to many Lebanese of this generation and of the previous one.