I showed the ad to my kids, who laughed. "If your power is out, you can't go online," my 8-year-old said.
Dobkin didn't laugh. "We recognize if their power is out, people can't get to the Internet. But we learned in Isabel that people find ways to get online, like computers at work."
Okay, he has a point.
And one must always be careful when poking fun at the power company. Four hours after I spoke to Dobkin, the power went out on my block. The adjacent blocks were fine.
Sorry, neighbors.
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