A mostly 'powerless' day

The electricity on my part of MCC went off shortly after 10am, and I noticed that a couple of men (who I took to be electricians) seemed to be walking up and down the street. On my way out to do a little shopping I noticed that the generator which supplies our houses was still working so came back up to find out "what gives?" - the two gents advised that power would be back on by 2pm. So far so