I found out having dinner with friends at a restaurant tonight that all power to the city of Mt. Shasta would be off from Midnight to 4 am.
I asked at the time: "How many people are going to die when they do this?" My friend who is a cynic towards me sometimes said "No one!"
However, until that moment I didn't know about the power outage and it was 4 hours before it was going to happen.
Then I was blogging in the bathroom because my wife wanted to sleep in our hotel room. Then it got to be about 11:40 and I realized I better get into bed while I could see anything at all.
It's a very strange feeling when all power goes out not only to your room but to everything in a whole city you are in. And still I ask the question: "How many people are going to die in a power outage that they didn't know about or prepare for?"
Especially people on oxygen plugged into a wall or who don't have their cell phone with them or don't have candles or matches at all either. How many people are going to be caught completely with their pants down who were in their bathrooms when the whole city's lights went out?
How many are going to freak out who don't do well with these surprises? or fall down stairs when the lights go out at midnight.
OH! How am I blogging and publishing my blog article at 12:32 am Thursday night?
Well. I guess people have installed battery backups for the Hotel Wifi which is really nice of them so people can stream movies or blog like I am right now if they want to. Pretty fun for me so far.
So, I just hope everyone survives this and doesn't majorly freak out falling down staircases and be stuck in elevators and stuff like this.
So, Good Luck! Everyone in Mt. Shasta from midnight to 4 am tonight!
Anyway, I went out onto the 3rd story terrace of our hotel room and saw the most Amazing Milky Way Galaxy I have seen in years.
So, I guess at least I'm having a great time. I just hope everyone survives it like people in elevators in Mt. Shasta or other places without any light without cell phone lights or candles or flashlights.
Something you don't experience every day at the very least!
Oh the reason why the power is out from midnight to 4 am tonight is that they are replacing electrical technology in a local Substation that supplies the whole city with power.
