The Night the Lights Went Out in Lilburn

This would have been a whole lot freakier if had happened tonight than last night, but it was still pretty weird!

At about 10:30 Tuesday night, the image to the right is about what things looked like inside our house. No storms in the area, but the power was out. Usually it comes back on pretty quickly, but pretty quickly we figured that it wasn't coming back on. After grabbing a flashlight, I stuck my head out the front door and the neighborhood looked the same. Total darkness.

After scrounging around for some yellow pages (does anyone keep these around anymore?) we found the number for Georgia Power to report the outage. A friendly, female computerized voice politely told me that there was trouble in our area. An accident nearby had broken a power pole and crews were in route to repair. Well...we couldn't leave it at that, so we packed up the dog, got in the car and started driving around to see if we could find it.

Sure enough, just down the road from our house, two Georgia Power trucks were installing a new power pole. All of the street lights and businesses in the general area where completely dark. It appeared that the accident had already been cleaned up, but we did notice a few broken trees near the pole location.

About an hour later the power did come back and order was restored. So...not as exciting as it could have been, but I've seen too many movies where the power to someone's home gets cut off and some stalker or killer comes busting in. It was pretty crazy to see everything around us in total blackness, though!