10:30pm power went out on monday and I was without electricity for 14 hours. It happened from a big storm. Something called a microburst. It took out 15 telephone poles. It left my apartment complex for 14 hours with no electricity. Power went out at about 10:30 pm and went on at about 12:30pm the next day.

I had to be at work at 3am that night. There were a few of us waiting outside the store wth no power because we didn’t wanna be inside the store. When we were sitting there there was an accident on the street. Soon after the assistant manager got to the store and sent me inside to go get milk crates and other containers so we could save the parishable food items and put them into refrigeration trucks. I went back outside and someone told me a cop came by and asked if we saw a person running through with head trauma. He also said that some guy hit his head during the accident and left blood on the windshield. He was nowhere to be found, so he must have ran off.

Today was a very hectic day for me. I did manage to take some pictures of some of the damage caused by the storm. Lots of it was cleaned up by the time I got off work. I even crossed some police lines that were put up for public safety to take pictures of the damage.

• Tucson Citizen Article about the storm
• Pictures I took of the storm damage in my neighborhood.

Apparently the calls we make are routed through the server and through T1 lines. From what I overheard the server couldn’t connect with the T1 lines and Qwest couldn’t come out till tomorrow to fix it. They did what they could and couldn’t get the server working.

As much as I would have liked to stay the whole shift so my paycheck is as big as it can be, I’m happy we got sent home. I just hope the server is working Friday so I don’t have another day off.