Oh, and I witnessed the lightning strike that took out their main transformer. It struck only 1-2 km from me, but I was 40 km away in Socorro. The power in Socorro flickered with the strike. Points west typically fare worse but not this bad.
51 hours restoration time is not too far off from the 48-hour estimate.
@arielmt Yikes!!!
This means no coffee, no cooking, no computer, and an even colder shower tomorrow morning. Swell. The sky had damn well better clear up so I'll have something to do after sunset & it gets too dark to read or write.