Blackout

This is my sixth year in Edinburgh and up til now I've not seen a power outage.

However, tonight that all changed as most of Marchmont was plunged into darkness by a failure in a substation in Marchmont ( or Morningside, reports are conflicting). It was all quite strange as Warrender Park Road, the bottom of Marchmont Road and the West Side of Marchmont Road were all subject to the darkness, but the East side of Marchmont Road seemed to be largely unaffected. Since my flatmate's girlfriend lives there, that was the place to go.

But anyway, it was interesting seeing how everyone reacted to the darkness. As soon as it happened, you could hear everyone in the flat above scrambling for torches and going outside to check it wasn't just them.

I did the same, and it was an eerie sight seeing the place in complete darkness with only car lights to reveal anything like pedestrians and the cyclists on the pavement. I have some photos which I hope to put up on facebook soon (which may or may not show anything) and you can see for yourself.

Luckily everything was fine, but there were a few moments when I was wondering if we would have to sit in the cold and the darkness for the whole evening, or even night! Having to talk to my flatmates, now that IS scary!