Richardson: Losing our power, however briefly, brought unexpected lessons

Like many people, I was forced by Friday’s storm and power outage into a kind of urban dweller’s survival mode. My first priority was to get my wife and son home safely from work. They had biked downtown that morning but by afternoon the sky had turned black, overloaded drains erupted like geysers, and our neighbourhood’s old maple and cedar trees whipped around in the wind and rain as though composed of something far more flexible than wood.
Safely together again as the late a