So far, in my safe little island home, this has got to be the most exciting thing that has happened so far in recent memory.

I saw the collapse (or rather a huge cloud of dust from a far away construction site) from my office window. In fact, my office building was one of those affected by the power blackout arising from the highway collapse. I didn't put two and two together. I told a friend who thought the cloud of dust was the cause that "it's so far away, how can it possibly have affected our power supply?"

Oh well. I hope everything turns out all right.