If you’re reading this, it means you’ve survived or at the very least slept through Adelaide’s blackout of November 1, 2015.

Yessir, psychic-predicted tidal waves may inexplicably spook us, minor tremors in Mount Barker may lightly rock us and the Grand Prix might desert us, but last night proved no loss of Victorian power (stupid Victorian jerk electricity) can stop South Australians banding together to compare notes on whose lights are out via Facebook.

Coming a few days after Adelaide intentionally went back to the 1800s to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the outages were apparently caused by a break in supply from the Victorian power grid. Subsequent load shedding by SA Power Networks plunged over 45,000 homes into darkness from Adelaide’s South to the Barossa. And in peak Sunday night Netflix time as well.

After a bit over an hour SA Power Networks managed to get most places reconnected, but by that point the damage was done. All other important news stories from Jarryd Hayne’s 49ers woes to Sunday night’s episode of The Block were blasted out of trending by jokes about having to actually talk to one’s family and variations of omg-people-using-their-phones-to-complain-about-outages-should-get-some-perspective.

Topical news references were on-point:

i blame the food trucks #adelaide #blackout

— Josh Boughey (@JoshBoughey1) November 1, 2015

Predictions about widespread candelit babymaking were gross but probably accurate:

Hey #adelaide expect an onslaught of births in 9 months…because what else is there to do in a blackout…! — Alicia Norton (@AliNorts) November 1, 2015

No one was really sure what any of SA Power Network’s terminology meant – physicists excepted.

I’m pretty sure that most of Adelaide is trying to figure out what “load shedding” right now… #poweroutage

— Tanya Monro (@tanyamonro) November 1, 2015

How can power be upstream? Think you’re confusing electricity with water, SA Power Networks. Sort it out! Finally (after an hour) power was restored for ABC 891’s Matthew Abraham, but it seems his ability to trust has been badly shaken.

Power back on in Unley. For now. — Matthew Abraham (@KevCorduroy) November 1, 2015

At least everyone kept their cool and at no point did anyone make a super daggy hashta—oh no what did you do???

It’s officially a thing people. #heapsdark https://t.co/xcvvUAIKVX

— Rebecca Morse (@RebeccaMorse10) November 1, 2015

#Adelaide #poweroutage #heapsdark pic.twitter.com/4PJCD7hpN1 — JimmyD (@sliprule) November 1, 2015

By midnight power had basically been restored, with thankfully no major incidents reported. According to InDaily, it was the biggest outage of its kind since 400,000 lost power in 2004, which presumably no one remembers because Twitter would not be invented for another two years.

Meanwhile, our Victorian neighbours went back to the drawing board.

Nice try, Victoria

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