lights out

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From about 6:30 to 8:30 p.m, the lights went out here as an early winter storm dropped fat ploppy snow flakes on leafy trees which then, perhaps, collapsed on electric wires.

I played poker with my younger son by candle light.

The lights weren't out quite long enough to reconfigure the bedrock assumption of light, but it is nice to have such bedrock assumptions challenged from time to time... money, food, love, warmth in the cold, etc.
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