In the Dark

I didn't know that this could happened in United States: on september 8th more than five million people coped with the sudden loss of electricity in San Diego County, Baja California, part of Arizona and other areas. These areas stayed without energy about 12 hours. The outage began at 3:38 p.m. after a 500-kilovolt high-voltage transmission line from Arizona to California failed, triggering a cascade of events that then knocked the San Onofre nuclear power plant offline. Those are the two major power sources for the region.

I was running at Mission Bay when I received the information of blackout- I meet a friend and he told me about the problem. So, I came back to my house but before I went to 7eleven convenience store because all markets and pharmacys were closed. In this place, there was a big line to buy food, drinks and others products. Some people were talking about the problem... An old man said that we were going to be three days without power. So the people in the line were scarried..The funny thing it was in general the people were buying beer, ice and water...everybody was ready to party in the dark.

The scary part was that it was so close to 9/11. People thoughts were about terror...I didn't think about that, but in the line of  7eleven I sad: What's going on? This situation looks like a big hurricane is comming to San Diego...Oh my gosh.
In the night, without energy, we went to ocean beach. There, a lot of young people was hanging out, fire bowls and the full moon were the unique lights... During the night, around 3 am, the lights came back!