The messages in the group chat were too painful to read. After a few glances, Stella Sterling closed the chat and started looking at the news online. As it turned out, the vitriol on the web was far worse than in the homeowners' group. It wasn't that property management was shirking its responsibility; her residential complex wasn't the only one to lose power. People all over the internet were discussing the outage.
At first, everyone assumed it was just a typical power outage and didn't think much of it.
But as more and more people began discussing the outages in their own regions, everyone started to realize something was wrong.
If people from all over were reporting outages, it meant the entire country was dark.
What century was it? For a nationwide blackout to happen, given the country's level of development—the whole thing was just plain bizarre!!!
Soon, everyone connected the outage to the blizzard that had been raging for days.
