A Night of No TV

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STORYSUBTITLE: Dec. 1, 2006

A power outage Friday night. Was watching TV and the image began freezing a lot. I shut down and unplugged the computer. Storm was coming on. Some lightning and thunder. Then raine started pattering on the glass pretty hard, a wind whipped up, the long curtains came stretching into the living room. A hard fresh wind. I realized water was entering—almost a wave of it, a puddle already formed in the window sill, my nearby record album covers sponging it up. Shut the windows. About a minute later