Two Strangers Knocked During a Christmas Outage. The Moment They Gave Their Names, I Knew Something Was Wrong.

I checked my phone—one bar of service, barely hanging on. A text notification sat there from the electric company: “Widespread outage affecting your area. Crews are working to restore power. No estimated time of restoration.”

That last part always felt like the worst kind of honesty—the admission that nobody actually knew when things would be okay continue reading …