Will Last Night’s Blackout Bequeath a Bernal Baby Boom?

Darkness fell on Eastern Precitaville last night, as a PG&E transformer bit the dust near the intersection of Alabama and Precita, causing a prolonged blackout.

The Bernalwood Action News Satellite Uplink Miata rushed to the scene to investigate, where a PG&E worker confirmed social-media reports that the outage may have been caused by an errant children’s balloon.

Neighbor Kent used the darkness as an opportunity to get cosmic…

When the gods take away our lights they make up for it with stars. Saw M51 and the Pleiades from our deck in @Bernalwood. #astronomy ftw

— kentquirk (@kentquirk) November 5, 2013

… while Neighbor Sarah pondered other ways to keep busy:

@Bernalwood I wonder how many Bernal babies will join the neighborhood nine months from now. #bernalblackoutopalypse2013

— Sarah K (@ursooperduper) November 5, 2013

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3 thoughts on “Will Last Night’s Blackout Bequeath a Bernal Baby Boom?”

This affected western Precitaville as well – I live on the 100 block and came home to flashing clocks. Thankfully it was indeed a beautiful night!

This likely explains the erroneous times displayed by our non-battery-powered clocks this morning, too. It would seem that the transformer affected some of us farther up the hill.