The power was out in a section of Pedro where I live tonight, but the lights just came back on.
A DWP worker I talked to on my block says they think a squirrel or some other critter got "cooked" on a wire.
It's always so odd when there's no electricity -- you go around flipping on light switches anyway, forgetting. Having no fans was probably the biggest inconvenience this time around with this little heat wave we're having.
Still, everyone made the best of it. Before I even got home, the couples on both sides of me -- one long-time marrieds, the others, young marrieds -- enjoyed candlelight dinners.
And later, many of us congregated out front with our flashlights and dogs, catching up on each other's busy lives.
Not such a bad way to pass an evening, really.
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