Returned home at 3:45 P.M. yesterday from pitching for Little League batting practice. Garage door opener did not work. No electricity. Only carry car key, so got house key from secret hiding place. Told all not to open refrigerator for any reason. Got out my 1950's AM transistor radio and tuned to local news station. No one had a clue; just lots of jabber. Got out my 9 flashlights and camping lantern, plus battery powered Jack-o-Lanterns. Gavin (6) is ecstatic that it's Halloween and wants to go trick-or-treating. Supper is room-temp cans of Spaghettios. Yummy. Radio says that school is cancelled for Friday. The boys are even happier. They're deprived of snow days and hurricane days here in San Diego. Kids on my block all playing in the street. No parents mention any regret at missing President Obama's re-run of sameo-sameo speech. Radio says that a worker in Arizona power company tripped something or other during routine maintenance that cascaded throughout western Arizona, Imperial and San Diego counties, southern Orange County, and northern Baja Mexico. Spokesperson for power company at news conference says that the lack of building power plants and power lines (while not mentioning the envirocrazies) makes the power grid more vulnerable. Electricity returned to my area at 3-minutes to 10 P.M. Wife immediately looks for the TV listings so she doesn't miss the ten-thousandths rerun of Law And Order. I finish a spy novel and go to sleep.
If you want to know more, here's the morning newspaper.
If you want to know the one word missing from President Obama's speech, guess, than click here for the answer.
TWEET from skateboarding superhero Tony Hawk: "Is a blackout in North County a way to force the pseudo-hippies to see what it's like to truly 'go green?' Panic on the streets of Leucadia."
