Actually, there is something more local than a power failure

This.

That’s my husband’s car, hit by a falling branch during the heat-wave breaking thunderstorm on June 10. But trees fell throughout Baristaville. Still, it was so local that some blocks were disaster areas and others were spared entirely. Baristanet ran about 15 stories the day following the storm, and despite more power failures, people managed to get on the site in record numbers. We tracked 18,000 visits — about twice our normal.

Global warming to the contrary, there’s nothing more local than the weather.