Blackout

April 12th, 2009 § 0 comments

Electricity went out, quite dramatically, while I was watching the final episode of Life on Mars last night and stayed off for longer than what folks in this comfortable neighborhood surely must be used to. Even if I could continue on a laptop, there was no getting the disc out of the player. So I took a walk to see how far the darkness went, but turned back when I didn’t see a single family outside, and thought maybe I might be gunned down by one of these fucking McCain supporters with their AK aimed at the door.

Edison’s website didn’t acknowledge the outage for at least an hour—

Equipment problem is right
—and that was after I had called it in, and was informed that over 2,000 homes in the area were affected. I then checked with the local news affiliate:
Maybe the water's colder than she expected
The Internet is useless.

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