Power outage in Southern California...

And all I can think of, is how in the world are those people going to survive without access to the internet?

And by the way, this is the reason why you don't live on a high floor in a building -- do you really want to go up and down 10 flights of stairs to take the dog out for a bathroom break?  Here's the scenario:

• Power goes out at 4:00 pm.
• You work on the 20th floor in downtown, and in order to get to your car, you have to walk down 22 levels (underground parking).
• You try to drive out of the parking garage, only to realize that there's a backup of cars trying to get out, all stalled, because there's confusion as to how bill and pay for parking without a credit card and not enough cash on hand.
• Finally, you get out of the garage, but now it's stop and go every single intersection because the traffic lights are all off.
• Well over an hour later you've reached your condo building, and it's the reverse, where you have to climb 10 flights of stairs just to get to the front door.
• You open the front door and are sweating bullets because the power had cut off the central air in the building's common areas, now above 78 degrees.
• Once you open your front door, your dog is panting because you left the blinds open and with your own central AC off, the heat is up to 86.  The dog is also begging to use the bathroom.
• You went up 10 flights of stairs, now you get to go back down with the dog, and up again.
• You have a smart phone and find out that the power won't get back on until Friday morning.  So you know what that means...you still have to go down and back up with the dog, to use the bathroom before going to sleep, and maybe once again in the morning.
• It's 11 pm and you are ready to take the dog downstairs for the bedtime bathroom walk, but then uh oh, the battery backup packs in the emergency lights in the stairways are dead after running out of their 90 minutes of juice.  Oh wonderful.
• In less than 24 hours, you will have traveled 50 flights (10 flights x 5 trips) of stairs up and 50 flights of stairs down, if you lived on the 10th floor.  Hey, you should be able to run a marathon, now!

And that's why you don't live on a floor higher than what you're willing to walk up and down for several days.