https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/san-francisco-electricity-out.html
Up until then it had been fun. Romantic even. The candlelight, the conversation, the games. Of course the rooms felt strange. Their dark, silent screens giving the walls a slightly threatening feel, making the rooms seem smaller. But they still had their devices until, suddenly they didn’t. He’d searched for the old battery pack but it didn’t fit anymore. Everything was powered by the house, until today. Once they ran out of battery power, their devices went dark, like the house, like the street. Like the whole city… Now they were alone. Really alone. Their Agents had all gone quiet.