Lights, power, um, hurricane lanterns?

Fortunately I’d finished washing dishes.

There’s always an initial period of excitement and amusement about a power outage, but when it becomes apparent that it ain’t comin’ back anytime soon, crankiness begins to exhibit.

We were out from 6:45pm to about 1:30am.

Hawaii Public Radio tells me that the Fire Department had to rescue 42 people stranded in elevators. That would probably be my worst nightmare; stuck in an enclosed box between floors of a high rise building.