There are joules, and ergs and kilobytes. There are miles and yards and silly little millimeters. There are decibels, rads and pounds.
And then there are ways of conveying big things. Billions and billions and billions of stars has nothing on this from the National Grid homepage:
That is all.
Oh wait – after last night’s little “you have no outage” report from National Grid, my phone call was apparently scary enough (a co-worker said “they don’t call you mad dog for nothing!”) that we’ve been returned to the outage map:
