FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 09, 2020

you’re doomed, Paige

No flashlights?

Why not light a fire on a day when nothing else can go wrong?

Did the kids always call their mom “Mother”?

She’ll get half a chapter done.

You know, Mom can always write a note explaining what happened.

Wait, a control freak like Andy wasn’t prepared for this with flashlights, real candles, a battery-powered radio for emergency broadcasts?

There isn’t a room in our house that doesn’t have at least a small flashlight. We also have battery-powered lanterns.

The nice thing about drawing blackouts for cartoonists is that they only have to worry about drawing the eyes.

I hate teachers like that—and I’m a teacher. All he accomplishes is making kids hate learning and school.

In a pinch, if you have some, go outside and grab any solar lighting you have around the house and bring it in.

How can anyone NOT be prepared for power outages? Our preference is for battery-powered lanterns. But if we’re just sitting and talking, or listening to the emergency band on the radio, we’ll light a candle.

I am confused by people selling slightly used generators in the spring garage sale after a winter power failure.

Power outages (like the vast majority of catastrophes) are a matter of “when” not “if” and should be prepared for

These people would not survive where I live. With ice storms, hurricanes, etc., I have to have supplies like a doomsday prepper.

Seems to me she has a perfect excuse for not doing the assignment. Especially if the other students have the same problem.

Go out to the car and read by the dome lights. Just don’t sit in it in the garage while it’s running!

Make wish.

it’s weird that she calls her mom “mother” every time. It’s super formal and impersonal sounding