Fortunately, the garage door has a battery backup, so we were able to pop it open and get in. It was a very localized outage, apparently just over 300 ComEd customers, so there was plenty of sky light for background. I found several of the jar candles and lit them, then used one of them to go in the basement, recover the good flashlight, and call in the outage.
Since our CPAPs wouldn't be working without power, Gretchen and I decided to wait it out by playing Ticket to Ride. Gretchen won the first game as we passed the flashlight back and forth and -- since the power was still out -- we decided to play a second. As we finished reading our initial hands, the power came back on.
We decided to play the second game anyway, which I won.
And now, we are going to bed. :) (Real time: 1:39 AM -- just a bit later than my delayed post...)