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1. There is a limit to the number of household repairs that can be made with candle wax and bandannas.
2. It is best to let fighting dogs figure things out for themselves.
3. A laptop battery runs out at the climax of any given film.
4. The desire for free ice and water is a metaphysical desire; FEMA is the unattainable Other.
5. There is such a thing as battery-powered fans. Elsewhere.
6. The kindness-and-togetherness-during-trying-times thing runs out after 3 hot days without power.*
7. Everybody loves Boggle.
8. Canola oil works great as starter fluid.**
9. Curfew is for real.
10. Generators are much louder than the people who use them (sitting inside with the TV blaring) probably realize.
*this rule, fortunately, does not apply in Spanish Town, where kindness and togetherness are virtually bottomless.
**thanks to DeWitt Brinson for this lesson.
