The Great San Diego Blackout of 2011

Oh, I feel so excited to have made it to San Diego in time for this. Last thursday I was at work, and about half way through my shift, taking an order and all of a sudden the hum of electricity faded suddenly as all the power went out. It was kind of funny to me. All I could do was laugh. I was already complaining about San Diego being too much like Ohio because it had been crazy humid (for San Diego, and let's face it, any kind of humid is too humid for me.) but then the power goes out! The power used to go out at my Marysville Starbucks all the time. So much so, I'm kinda shocked we didn't have a backup supply of candles and lighters. ;) So anyway, I was not feeling homesick this week. Needless to say, we closed early. Which was good, because it was 90ish out and our store turned into a sauna with no air conditioning. So, at the time we had no clue what was going on. There was speculation about terrorism and what not. But it was really a mistake in Arizona that caused the power to go out for almost 1.5 million people in Souther Cali, Arizona, and Mexico. So, the girls had another 3 day weekend, and camped out on the patio. It was kind of cool because with all the lights off, you could really see the stars. :) The power came back on around 2AM.