I'm writing this on my iPad because the electricity is out in my area. I'm pleased to say that I shall miss no deadlines because of this. (See recent post about the writer who always had a good excuse for his work being late.) I have enough flashlights and phone chargers to get through this. I even recently installed a battery back-up on the CPAP unit with which I sleep so I could go nap through this power outage…and I might.
A Tweet an hour ago told me the Department of Water and Power is aware that my neighborhood is sans power; not that they're working on the problem and certainly not any estimate as to when service might be restored. Just that they're aware of the problem. That leads me to suspect it'll be quite a while…but the truth is that I have no friggin' clue.
It's frustrating. But then again, this might be a great evening to not be able to watch the news.