Power back on, good morning everyone!
Power line snapped just outside my bedroom window - reminded what
real voltage can and will do. The cable actually
ate through concrete and dug itself in... The initial arc was like nothing I've heard before. I was reading some Genetics papers last night and one thing lead to another and I ended up re-reading passages of my favorite Dawkins books before I went to bed. So then I am suddenly awoken by a monumental flash and an out-of-this world boom! I'm like... ...., I was wrong, Dawkins was wrong, and here's the big guy to set me straight

It took several minutes to get back to all my senses and understand what actually had happened; it was beautiful. Man made thunder, really, sparking a brief paralysis of reason and then understanding clearing things up.
The cables continued to arc on the ground, sparking small fires for almost an hour until they cut power!