I just got a call from a friend who lives in the vicinity of Campbell and Grant saying that there was a huge power outage.
Yep, there is and it affected a wide area between Ina Road to the north, 22nd Street to the south, Alvernon Way to the east and Camino de la Terra to the west.
You can read more about it.
My worst power outage experience was when I worked in Los Angeles and was on the 17th floor of a downtown office building. We lost power after an earthquake. Walking down all those flights in the dark as aftershocks shook the building has put an indelible fear of claustrophic darkness on my brain.
This article appears in Apr 10-16, 2008.
Why not just carry a small two-AA-sized MiniMaglite in your pocket or purse? I do so every day, and it’s come in handy frequently.
It’s a rare day indeed when I leave the house without a means of producing light or fire if the need arises, even if it’s just a small flashlight and a Bic lighter.
We had the power outage on Campbell Road in the Foothills, but just up the street at La Encantada Mall the power was on. I have heard two different stories, but one is that they had a system failure at the pwer station.
i was once in a power outage while on the matterhorn ride at disneyland. i was way up inside the mountain and the abominable snowman was peeking out about to swipe at my head with his gigantic icy claws. but he was frozen in time just like i was frozen way up there on the matterhorn. we got out and played and i climbed to the top of the mountain which has graffiti that says “this is the highest place of the happiest place on earth.”