Just got the electricity back on after a small power outage here in town.
Having a power outage in itself is not exactly weird, but it was the way it happen that was weird.
My computer is open, with a fan blowing on it because it gets so hot that I need the extra fan to keep it cool. Well, this fan suddenly sped up then stopped. I thought maybe it had died, but then the podcast I was listening to on my computer stopped. Then the lamp behind me went out, then the computer shutdown, then the monitor shut down, and finally the fluorescent lamp on my desk slowly faded out.
It took about 15 seconds for everything to shut down/go out. It wasn’t like a typical power outage where everything just goes down. This was gradual.
And it wasn’t as if I immediately knew there was a power outage. Because things went off one by one, it was as if someone or something was just turning stuff off.
So I went outside and walked down the street a little to see if the stop light around the corner was working. Sure enough, as I got to the corner, the light was lit, but the red light slowly dimmed and went dark.
It was like the whole town was slowly going to sleep!
About 10 minutes later, the power came back on all at once. It didn’t wind up like it went down. More like someone threw a switch and said “Let there be light!”
That is the strangest power outage I have ever gone through.
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