Power

It was, and still is, a dark and stormy night. At around 5:30PM, I was sitting on the couch starting the first page of Simon Singh’s The Code Book when I heard a loud popping sound about a block away accompanied by all lights in the house dropping to half strength. After a minute of this surreal lighting, they went out entirely and Ann and I went into “We knew this was going to happen. Sigh. Here we go” mode and gathered up candles, flashlights, and anything else we thought we might need.

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