I think god hates me, and he is thinking up really creative ways to show me it too. I had just got finished at work preparing some things for tomorrow, when the lights went out and came back on about a minute later. Turns out a voltage transformation station nearby decided to short circuit and tear down the whole power grid of the city (that, I found out later). Now that wouldn’t have bothered me since (as a data center) we have emergency power that can run for a while. Yeah, that is really useful … unless of course the circuit my computer is on decided to blow the fuse when the power came back on (and I of course don’t have access to the room with the fuses, or else I could have just flipped it back up). Now I either had the choice of grabbing my laptop and going into one of the network rooms and working from there or saying “aw F#$%” and going home. The later choice won.
The city is kinda interesting without power. Took them about 45min. to get it turned back on too. Traffic was a bit chaotic without traffic lights (thank god I went on foot, the stupid drivers would have run me down within 5 mins.) Streetcars held up a while since they seem to be running on their own grid, but eventually the started getting stuck in traffic too (and running low on power ;))
PS. If the video from the last posting doesn’t work, try the link underneath. For some reason it works on some computers, and on others it doesn’t. I haven’t been able to figure out why yet.