A Lava Lamp to stare at.

[Kernelpanic]

The issue we're facing is the dang winds this time around!  Living in the mountains, with the hills all straight up and down, the wind will knock down old trees and then those fall on top of the powerlines...  Which the electric guys then have to basically cut a road back into to fix.

When I was in America over thirty years ago, I was amazed at the power cables that you could see everywhere on the streets. Technologically high advanced, and then something like that - like in a "Third world country".

Especially in rural areas like yours, it would be much cheaper to put the cables underground than to repair power cables every year.

An old picture from Cleveland Ohio. I could not do it any better now.