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Chile Scenes Of Winter: Foraging For Food After The Freeze

8:33 AM EST on November 2, 2020

A tree had collapsed on the side of my house, dragging down multiple black wires in its fall. With OG&E nowhere to be seen and with far more important neighborhoods in need of electricity, they probably won’t be around for a while, I’m guessing. Needing basic warmth and moderate light, I've been spending the past few days with my ladyfriend in her womb-like condominium.

It was practically impossible to save the food that went bad in the first days of the power outage, and, with the provisions at her house dwindling, we figured that, with the sun finally coming out that afternoon, Friday night would be a good time to get out and get some dinner.