Where were you when the lights went out?

Last night while I was in the process of writing my post, the power went out. So, I planned to get up early and finish it first thing in the morning. Unfortunately, the power was still out in the morning...and the afternoon...and a good part of the evening.

Instead of doing my post first thing in the morning, I made a trip to the store as did a friend and after 12 bags of ice we finally had enough. As you can see, it took all of my coolers and then some to empty the refrigerator to try to keep things cold.

Were you caught in the "unplanned outage"? According to the follow-up email I received from SCE (Southern California Edison), the outage affected approximately 3,823 customers.