San Diego Blackout

Yesterday was such a weird day, worse day ever to have a black out too, it was freakin hot. The San Diego blackout occurred while I was at work and the resort had all-property meeting to figure out their game plan. After we were given the green-light go to head home, I realized the commute was going to be horrendous. No electricity = no traffic lights + rush hour = cluster!! There was decent cell service so I checked Sigalert, the freeways looked like spaghetti. The team and I ended up hanging out at the boss's house which is down the street, drank wine, saw her two pugs and snacked on munchies while we waited for the traffic to die down. The drive back was so odd, the sun was beginning to set and I knew coming home it was would be pitch black.

My apartment complex was just one big party, people were in the streets because it was much cooler, some were in their cars with booze listening to the radio for outage updates. The first thing I did when I got into my apartment was walk my dog, (poor guy). Shortly after I lit my one candle (with two wicks), I knew exactly where my flashlight was, looked for extra batteries and put my water bottles on my dresser. I had an epiphany though, my laptop was fully-charged so I used that to power my phone! After getting SD blackout settled, I didn't have a radio to get updates myself and I thought "now what?". The cell service was so spotty, you'd be lucky if you could get a phone call and sometimes it would take a while to send just a text! To keep myself entertained, I busted out my DS and played Pokemon Black. With really nothing to do, I went to bed super early. Eventually the power was back around 10:30pm PST.

Today I dumped all the food that went bad in the fridge. Looking back I think people realized HOW connected we are digitally, that sometimes it is nice to go outside, take a walk and talk to your neighbor. Any other day of the week you wouldn't see that on the streets.