Lights out!
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Holy carp! It’s dark out there, people.
I was driving north about half an hour ago after seeing Hellboy II with some friends (good movie, not great) when suddenly the streetlights went out. So did most others.
Some lights still remained on - generator-powered, I’m guessing. My part of town is really black. Eerie. Not so comfortable for a dude who writes lots of after-the-holocaust stories.
Biggest excitement hereabouts since the Great Bosque Fire of ‘03 (how time flies!) That one made the national news - my editor for the MechWarrior novel I was writing emailed to see if I was in danger. I wasn’t, but indeed the fire was burning not more than a couple miles from where I live.
Not much happens here. Which, on the whole, is probably a good thing.
KRQE 13 News says much of Albuquerque is black. Apparently PNM believes there’s a hitch with electricity coming into town. KRQE’s studio lights flickered but service quickly came back, which is odd if the whole city’s power is affected.
Radio stations were still broadcasting when I came in, so we don’t seem to be dealing with an EMP or anything. Plus, hey, my computer works!
No biggie. (Fingers crossed.)
As long as the battery holds. So sayonara for now…
Update, 11:43 PM: Lights on.
So along about 20-25 minutes ago I was lighting the last, recalcitrant candle in my bedroom (and roundly cursing it, though not the dark) when with a plaintive sort of flicker light returned to Jupiter. Artificial light, anyway.