Here’s a quiz.

It’s 4 in the morning. There is a fire truck stopped in the middle of the road, lights flashing. Two fully suited firemen are out of the truck. You drive up to the scene and:

A) Put your truck into reverse and go back from whence you came.
B) Ask one of the fire men what’s going on.
C) Say to hell with it and drive your truck right on through, despite the firemen yelling and waving at you, pausing only briefly when the downed power line slaps the front of your hood and windshield.

On a related note, a downed and arcing power line looks and sounds a LOT like fireworks, only really close to the ground.

On yet another related note, I love the fact that people don’t secure their wireless networks, so I can sit here and blog about sitting here with no power. (The entire street in front of my house is blocked off, so we can’t go anywhere unless we walk. In the rain.)