YoshiRider123's Sandy Death

[Ludwig Von Koopa]

masteryoshirider 12:36 am
I first heard about Sandy about Thursday, a week ago.
Wasn't really interested enough to know if it was actually going to affect me, but it was by the weekend that I started hearing it was coming my way.

masteryoshirider 12:38 am
End of the weekend, apparently Sandy has actually killed people, and people were forecasting it was going to be worse than Irene, which struck some time ago. I don't remember when Irene happened.
Then I'm seeing stuff online about it, like on Facebook, and on NeoGAF.
It was Monday morning that I had come to realize that Sandy was going to inhibit my lifestyle in some way.


masteryoshirider 12:39 am
It began to drizzle before the afternoon rolled it, and the trees swayed more strongly than usual.

masteryoshirider 12:40 am
I was eating in the living room with my dad at 4:15 PM, when suddenly...
EVERYTHING TURNED OFF.

masteryoshirider 12:41 am
This pissed me off because I hadn't finished charging 3DS entirely, which was only halfway full.
And as we all know, the 3DS has poor battery life.

masteryoshirider 12:42 am
I spent the rest of the afternoon reading the issue of Nintendo Power that I never got around to reading yet, and only stopped because of the darkness.
At that time, my mom came home from work, and we all settled by setting up candles everywhere so we wouldn't trip over something like our dog.
Mind, the wind started really kicking up now.
I remembered that I had a car charger for my 3DS. My life was saved.
Except I couldn't remember where it was.


masteryoshirider 12:44 am
As a substitute, I just used the DSi I still had and played Picross 3D until about 10:00 PM.
A lot more viable to do, given the DSi has a much better battery life than the 3DS.
I had a weird urge to play Animal Crossing, so I switched to that.
Instead of my bedroom on the second floor, I slept on the cold hardwood flooring that was covered in blankets in the living room with my parents, in case something went down overnight.


masteryoshirider 12:47 am
We only stayed down there for an hour because the storm had subsided.
I still remember how it felt, though. The house literally felt like it was tilting, which made me feel nauseous.

masteryoshirider 12:48 am
Once we went back to our rooms, I stayed up until 2:00 AM before I went to sleep.

masteryoshirider 12:49 am
I wasn't even doing anything during that time. I was just there on my bed.


masteryoshirider 12:50 am
Although, it was during this interval that I made a scientific discovery that I had never encountered before.
The candle had gone out, but I was playing around with a flashlight like a sword.
When I stopped messing around with it and turned it off, I noticed that screen of my CRT television had a weird glow.

masteryoshirider 12:51 am
About a minute later, that glow disappeared.

masteryoshirider 12:52 am
I spent the next half hour pointing the light of my flashlight to the screen and discovered that the light that is projected from the flashlight is absorbed into the television for a small amount of time, making it look as if it had been recently been turned on.
And then I went to sleep on the first night.
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[Ludwig Von Koopa]

masteryoshirider 12:52 am
When I woke up, it was about 6:00 AM.

masteryoshirider 12:53 am
I checked the switch of my lamp to see if the power came back. It didn't.

masteryoshirider 12:54 am
I went back to sleep for another five hours.

masteryoshirider 12:54 am
I woke up to my dad yelling a scream of glee. He said that the power came back.
I rolled out of the bed and went straight to the computer. He was right.
However, five minutes after being on AIM, the power cut off again.
My dad told me that a tree that fell that morning was what caused to power to go off again.

masteryoshirider 12:56 am
Defeated, I went to eat breakfast. I ate a ham sandwich.
I gave another shot to finding the car charger for my 3DS. I found it behind one of the seats to my dad's car.
It was about 1:00 PM that I decided to go back to sleep, because I was too bored to do anything else.
I woke up three hours later, and got my 3DS.

masteryoshirider 12:58 am
I spent the next six hours playing WarioWare on the lowest settings.
And ate dinner somewhere in between.
Dinner sucked. The fish tasted awful.
It was 10:00 PM when the 3DS battery kicked the bucket, but I spent the next two hours not doing anything, like last night.

masteryoshirider 1:01 am
I checked the lamp again before I went to sleep. The power still didn't return.
Getting screwed over for a second day, I went to sleep in hopes that it would be my last.
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[Ludwig Von Koopa]

masteryoshirider 1:01 am
I woke up at 10:30 AM.
My dad woke me up telling me it was almost 12.

[Ludwig Von Koopa]

masteryoshirider 1:03 am
For breakfast, I had scrambled eggs. They were really scrambled.

RawkHawk2010 1:04 am
How did y'all scramble eggs without power?

masteryoshirider 1:04 am
It had gotten so cold that we used our backyard as our refrigerator, which I was reminded of when I went to get the gallon of juice.
That's a mystery to me.


masteryoshirider 1:06 am
I knew that this day wasn't going to play out much better if I wasn't going to get power, so after breakfast, I just went back to my room.
I didn't go to sleep, but I stayed in my bed for a while. The 3DS was fully recharged again, so I played more WarioWare for a few hours, but not as long as before.
Before my mom left to go to work, she told me that she had made chicken parmesan for me for dinner.

masteryoshirider 1:08 am
I went to go eat at around 4:30 PM, but I didn't find any chicken parmesan.
I just found a bowl of cold linguini with some slices of chicken, peppers, and onions in it.
THAT'S NOT CHICKEN PARMESAN.
I don't even like peppers or onions, either.

masteryoshirider 1:10 am
There was no sauce.

masteryoshirider 1:11 am
It had gotten dark by the time I finished eating.
I had a feeling in my stomach that it was fate that I wasn't going to survive another night without doing anything crazy.
And it wasn't the linguini.

masteryoshirider 1:12 am
7:30 PM. 3DS died.

masteryoshirider 1:13 am
This was it.
I had nothing to do.
I lied on my floor and slept on it for an hour because my bed was too drenched in my sweat.
I looked out the window, and across the street, I saw that the building had its power restored.
I checked the light again. It wasn't turning on.
I felt segregated, like I was in prison or something

masteryoshirider 1:15 am
That made me wonder what it was like to be in a prison during a hurricane. It was probably safer in there than in my own home.
But I digress.
On my knees, I held my head with my hands. My head hurt.

masteryoshirider 1:17 am
I decided that, on that night, I would sneak out of the house and do something about that tree/
Even if it meant...DEATH.
I was resting in my bed in order to get the energy needed to that night's deed.
My door swung open.

masteryoshirider 1:20 am
I saw my hallway illuminated by the light coming from the ceiling. My dad had come to tell me that the power came back.
In disbelief, I checked the lamp. It turned on.
It was about 9:30 that I was helping my dad out with relocating all of our perishable goods from our backyard back to our fridge.
Television satellite was working after ten minutes of troubleshooting.
DirecTV sucks.

masteryoshirider 1:22 am
And at long last, I came to my computer, and it turned on at 10:00 PM.

[Ludwig Von Koopa]

It's important to note that YR's last words to [Koopa Keep] before we knew he was alive were

"It's getting worse".