A Chicagoan’s Guide to San Diego Part 8: Blackouts
January 20, 2012
With all the huge storms and drunk drivers who end up smashed into electrical poles in Chicago, we’re pretty used to losing power. “Electricity doesn’t work?? Damn power company. At least I’d pre-programmed the DVR so I can watch Top Chef when they get it working again.”
While in San Diego, there was a rolling blackout and a subsequent freakout. The lower West Coast lost power around 4pm. We went to the convenience store to get some ice around 4:15pm but it was closed and the ice machine was already empty. The bottled water machine was empty. Other people pulled into the convenience store parking lot desperately hoping to get any sort of supplies and they told us not to even try to get to another grocery store. Everything was closed and the roads were madness. They’d been without power for 20 minutes, the weather was as non-threatening as it gets, and everyone was going into survival bunker mode. We just wanted ice to keep our beer cold until the fridge started working again.
