It's amazing how quiet it gets when the power goes

Somewhere in Southborough, a transformer caught fire about 20 minutes ago. So no more rushing air from the heating system, no hum from the fluourescent lights or the refrigerators. If I get close enough to our main lunchroom, though, I first feel, then hear the throbbing from our emergency diesel generator, which is keeping all our network systems and servers up. A pity it can't be connected to our emergency lights, since every fourth one seems to be out, including the one in what was a pitchblack stairwell (until somebody propped open the fire door).

Note: Maybe two minutes after I posted the above, the power came back on. And the heating system seems to be trying to make up for lost time, because it's now about 800 degrees in my office, I'm melting.