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5 min readOn the evening of Thursday, November 13, 2014, the lights went out in a suburban home on the U.S. West Coast. There was no storm, no wind—just a perfectly clear sky. Through the living room window, the stars appeared brighter than anyone had ever seen them, and on the horizon, an eerie green light flashed like distant lightning. The narrator, his ex-girlfriend, and her parents assumed it was a widespread blackout. They played Scrabble by candlelight, joked about getting a snow day from work, and listened to a radio that eventually crackled to life with a calm, looping public service announcement: Please remain indoors. We will update you when we have more information.
That was the last normal moment they would share.
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- 1 (02:43) **The Lost Blackout** - The narrator introduces a massive power outage event from November 2014 that nobody else seems to remember, suggesting it may have been global.
- 2 (03:51) **The Night the Lights Went Out** - The blackout begins on a clear evening while the family watches Jeopardy, with eerie green flashes on the horizon.
- 3 (05:49) **Radio Static and a Public Service Announcement** - The family tunes a radio to static, then hears a looping PSA instructing them to remain indoors.
- 4 (08:04) **A Restless Night and Morning Instructions** - The family goes to bed, but the next morning, they’re instructed to cover all windows with duct tape and blankets.
- 5 (13:06) **Preparing for the Long Haul** - The family seals the house, fills bathtubs with water, and rations food, settling into a tense, dark routine.
- 6 (15:25) **The Unsettling Horn** - Late Friday night, everyone wakes to a deep, vibrating horn sound that seems to come from everywhere at once.
- 7 (17:16) **A Peek Outside** - On Saturday morning, the narrator peeks through a gap in the curtains, seeing the green flashes still on the horizon.
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What will you do when the world is plunged into the darkness ?
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