A big thunderstorm hit just after Apple got home from work. A few minutes later our power went out, and it’s still out. Sustained outages are actually pretty unusual around here, but we broke out the candles, took cold showers and are headed to bed. I’m able to post this thanks to my iPhone, and the AT&T EDGE network, which is still working just fine.

We haven’t had a real power failure since the ‘04 hurricanes. It’s kind of cool, being surrounded by darkness — there are no lights visible anywhere outside our windows. I always did get geeked over blackouts when I was a kid, just so long as they ended by the time it stopped being fun!

Hopefully everything will be back to normal tomorrow.

Edit @ 11:30pm: It’s back on now.