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.
daisy_knotwise had been in a separate car and had gone by Dairy Queen on the way home, so I called her from the land line to let her know the power was out and not to close the garage door, as I didn't want to keep relying on the battery. After we all finished shakes and malts, I ran out to Jewel to pick up some cheap flashlights for Katie and Julie. They eventually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.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...)
