I picked my friend Paul up at work and we went to my house and the power was out for the whole neighborhood

the power has never been out here for more than 10 minutes. We always assumed we were on the same grid as the hospital and fire station

firestation, yes, hospital, no

anyway, we went out for dinner and went to his house to pick up a tv and then came back...

still no power

so we lit a bunch of candles and moved the tv in

and I was showing him some stuff that I got recently

and I showed him the space ships from Starfarers of Catan

the cool thing about Starfarers is that instead of dice, you have these spaceships

and you shake them (preferably while screaming on behalf of any passengers) and little balls fall down and that tells you how far you move

so to demonstrate the spaceship, I picked one up and shook it--- instant power restoration to the neighborhood...

SPOOKY

and magical

but the really weird part is this

my wireless network doesn't work

my wired network is fine but wireless is out. I've restarted it several times.

my upstairs neighbor's wireless is also out-- I have their wep key in case of emergencies

but my cell phone *also* can't connect and the tower is up the hill in an area that didn't lose power

it's almost like there's some major electrical interference that is keeping the networks from working-- but...

other networks in the area are working. Only, there are half as many as usual

and the working ones have little signal strength like all of the nearby networks are down

Maybe Section 51 is working on a Super Weapon and decided to test it on a major urban neighborhood?

my cell phone still can't connect! It's been 3 hours and I've rebooted it twice

there are aliens afoot

I kinda stopped at 'Starfarers Catan' -

The truth is out there...well, the mystery at least. The truth might be out there, but I sure as hell don't know what it is!

freaky!

at SF General when a metal balloon blew out the power on the grid. The generators didn't come on. Big disaster.

you have a wireless disruptor to get the power back on. They have them at hospitals - had one at SF general.

that's very odd...

if an EMP pulse was involved

really, CHiC? I am 3 block from SF General...

but the streetlights by general were on as well and I don't think the general's generators should be running those