as published on www.ocregister.com on Sept. 16, 2011
At 3:30 on a Thursday afternoon, I pulled into the pickup loop at my daughter’s school. I texted her to tell her I was there. Up popped a red exclamation point. “Failed to send.” Come on, iPhone. Why aren’t you working? Am I really going to have to get out of my car and walk inside?
Three exclamation points later, I did. And the building was pitch black. “The power’s out,” a gaggle of middle-schoolers squealed, exuberant anytime something out of the norm occurs. The adults in the room passed patient smiles, presuming an A/C overdrive had provoked another rolling blackout. It was 95 degrees. Orange County was going to get a little grumpy.
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Outage provided short-lived freedom from plugged-in world - Family Life - The Orange County Register
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