After a blustery day, it got downright windy as the sun went down, and the power was knocked out... it'd been raining most of the night before, and off and on during the day, so a tree must have gotten blown over and took down some lines when it did.

I'd been planning on going to the store once I finished part of the project I was working on (the infamous "logical break point"), but since the power was out, I decided to head out... we lose power out where we are more than they do in town, so I figured I'd be OK.

It was wild to see the streetlights out on the way down the hill...   

In town, they were out of power too... I used my camera's night vision setting, and got a few shots of trees down in town, but on the radio, they were saying the whole area was out, because a transfer station had a tree fall into it.

QFC was closed, but Safeway, after the week long power outage, bought a generator, and they were up and running... they had the only light in town.  I managed to catch a lightening flash when I took the picture, which was pretty cool... that doesn't happen too often  up this way.

Inside, only the emergency lights were on... the frozen food isles were blocked off -- they didn't want people opening the freezers and letting out the cold air.

The refrigerated food had warmed up too much, so they were pulling it off the shelves... "We have insurance for that", the manager let me know after I took the picture.

I drove back through town, to try and get some pictures of the darkened streets, but as I was entering the downtown area, the power came back on, and things lit up... when I got home, we had power there, too.

So, thus, the "Great Power Outage of 2008" faded into memory.

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