though the pitch-blackness in daytime seemed a bit much. (But we don't have severe storms with lightning and strong winds in Southern California, at least not at the same time, so what do I know?)
Trust me - it can get pitch-black in the middle of the day. And it can come on in almost the blink of an eye. But then 10 minutes later the sun will be shining. We just roll with it.
And it doesn't even need to be due to an approaching hurricane, as is the case today with Hurricane Earl making its way. Right now I can barely see my keyboard because I'm too lazy to get up and turn on a light. (And the fact that it's deluging outside doesn't help. Funny how they never seemed to have rain like that in Collinsport. But then, more often than not they tended to have the rather weird phenomenon of completely rainless thunder storms.
) But not ten minutes from now it'll probably be bright enough to see fine again...