it's friday night in america, so we are getting in the car, hungry, at around 9:20 to take off for an epic trip to fred meyer's, attempting to plan our attack so we make it back in time to watch law & order with some tasty snacks. we get in the car, which is parked in se portland facing north, across powell from the train yard/omsi-related construction site. we see a bright flash of blue, almost turqoise light coming from around where water st. is.
"aliens! superheroes! i think all the streetlights are out!" (me)
"what streetlights?" (jake)
"oh . . . i guess just that one." (me)
lights are on in houses, there's no power outage or anything. but i am thinking, aliens, superheroes, zombies, could be anything. what follows is a drive to freddy's, with me pleading with jake to just believe in those things for like five minutes. if he took me seriously, he could become a famous journalist overnight! after that i just forgot about it.
UNTIL we got home and the clock was flashing. there was indeed a power outage, probably only seconds long because i was observant and on top of it. this led me to search for "blue flash of light portland or," which led me to this website.
whoa.
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