I go to a pretty big University, NCSU to be exact. Today at around 5:30, there was a massive campus-wide blackout. I was in my room at the time with a friend, being forced to listen to horrible musical attempts from next door. The loss of power stopped that, so I wasn't too upset. No one really knew what was going on tough and it was dinner time but everything was shut down. Some of the building were evacuated. Police and firetrucks raced to the scene because quite a few people were trapped in elevators at the time. We walked across campus to meet up with other friends and waited around for a bit. No change in the power situation.

Armed with a flashlight and a motley group of cell phones lighting the way, my friends and I traveled off campus for dinner. A lovely time was had by all and by the time we returned, power was back. We were a bit bummed, because if it ad stayed off, classes could have been canceled tomorrow. Oh well.

The cause of all this mayhem you might ask.... It turned out the culprit was a small squirrel. The critter got in the transformer and blew it out. Gotta love technology...