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In Downtown Toronto (Riverdale) and the power was on from 5 am to 7:30 am and then off again... It came back on around 10ish again and has been on since.
It was weird here last night.
The drive home was not as bad as I expected... although I drive a Vespa so I was able to skirt around much of the more mundane traffic. What was cool was that there still appeared to be a good amount of politeness when drivers approached intersections. Traffic was bad but it was flowing.
I live near a park and as planned went to see Shakespeare in the Rough last night. They are a theatre group that stages plays in the park. Saw them do Much Ado About Nothing. Excellent production. As it got dark it was very cool because the "stage area" (deliniated by the boles of a couple of large trees) was the only lit area (battery powered lights).
I live in an older urban neighbourhood (i.e. narrow tree lined streets with victorian homes) and everyone seemed to be out walking and chatting with the neighbours. Many were out with candles in their stoops taking in the cool night air and many were at the park looking across the Don Valley at the relatively darkened city skyline (generates seemed to be keeping a lot of the towers lit) and taking in the star which are ordinarily blocked out by light pollution.
It was very cool how dark everything became.
Slept out on the back deck with my son as it was too hot in the house. Drempt of fighting of bear sized racoons but no actual encounter occured.
Hope everyone else is OK and enjoying a day off (hey our Prime Minsister requested we take the day and who am I to say no?).
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