When the lights go out

Big power outage in L.A. today. On BoingBoing, Xeni Jardin notes:

I phoned a pal to ask if she knew anything. She didn't, and said "I guess this means I'm paranoid, but the first thing I did when the lights went out was change from heels to sneakers and get ready to run."

Fortunately it was only an accidentally sliced electric cable. That's today's world: 2 million people lose power and we're all relieved it wasn't something serious.