at about 7am this morning, not when I usually wake up but for some reason I was up and watching a crap movie on my computer, the electricity supply in the building was shut off. At first I thought it was my trip switch (sometimes goes if I’m using the air conditioner too much) but under closer inspection none of the switches were down. Secondly I thought it might be because of my bills… that seemed far fetched so I checked all the meters outside, none of the dials were spinning so the only possible logical explanation was that somewhere, someone has fucked up!
I live near two stations and I could hear trains running, little did I know that the whole of this area (some 800,000 homes and offices) was disconnected due to some buffoon piloting his crane barge into Tokyo’s main power cables. They got it all fixed by about 10am. My apartment came back to life, somewhat interrupting a wonderful game of New Super Mario on my DS. 🙂