Ball point pen on today's newsprint About 7:30 pm Monday evening, we lost power here in South Plainfield New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy hit us pretty hard with many old growth trees uprooted onto power lines. But, aside from the power, we were very fortunate to have lost only a few tree limbs and some siding from our home. We did prepare for the storm so we had food to eat, containers of water to drink, plenty of ice to keep our food from spoiling and wood to burn for heat. What we didn't have was power and any communication or news from the outside world. We had a transistor radio but the New Jersey station wasn't broadcasting the first 24 hours and the New York Times and Star Ledger understandably weren't delivered. We had our phones fully charged but as New Jersey lost 25 percent of it's cell towers, we had no service. Our world was reduced to what we could see from our windows. And i ...