I was just about to leave work this evening when I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of light bulbs and computers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Fun though it was, breathing in the heady primeval atmosphere between two sets of securely closed doors with de-energised maglocks, I did eventually escape along with all my colleagues, to breath instead the heady industrial atmosphere of all the emergency diesel generators going full tilt. Then we realised no-one could get out of the car park because the place was in lock-down (and perhaps because the barriers also require electricity).
Burglar alarms as far as Longstone were still singing merrily to the world when I finally hit the road. I heard the trams lost power, as did a whole bunch of traffic lights. Anyone know how extensive the power cut was? Twitter reported 'west Edinburgh'.
[Thought about putting this in the Spotted thread, but it's really more of an 'un-spotted' incident.]
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