[BureaucratusMaximus]

Could it be a prelude? Biological agents are best dispersed at night. Germs are sensitive to sunlight and heat. But the trouble is that everyone is indoors at night. How do you get a major urban population to open up their doors and windows and go outside at night? Just speculating.

I was thinking even more worse case than you; if this outage encompassed the left coast (including Wyoming/Colorado/Montana/NORAD) it'd be a good time for one our friends in the world community (sarcasm intended) to lob a few nukes our way./tinfoil off

In any right...I'm glad my A/C has been running all day and my internet connection is up...beer is quite cold in the fridge...heres to you ;)

[Monty22]

That would still be suicide, the boomers I'm sure are on alert.