Well.....the power is on again in many areas, including mine.
Although these kinds of things affect your life personally and seem important at the moment, in the whole scheme of things, this event was a very, very minor blip when compared to the tragedies of New Orleans.
(It's now being reported that a power worker "cut" the wrong line. That's some big pair of scissors to eliminate 1/4 of Los Angeles from the power grid!!! )