in the mayor's office, deep within the town hall, things couldn't have gone worse, the plant was split in half, there were people trying to get home clogging the streets, and now accounts of things straight out of a JRR tolkin novel. Mayor Charels Areski had been packing up when the power went out, and the phones went nuts.<br/>Now he had to rouse people from their homes, and get the entire town on emergency footing.<br/>Not easy for an aching, balding, five foot somthing, fourty five year old. in his grey suit Charels screamed pencil pusher. of course this paper pusher was bringing the entire town back online, the plant workers, police and fire department had turned out to help, and the call centers were abuzz with people.<br/>He picked up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief according to the Wally Mac head of the fire department, the power plant guys were able to finally get the generators hooked up to the city grid. Not that a some people in the trailer park wanted to part with their generators, and they'd drained a number of fuel tanks, including the large gas truck parked at the diner at third and weston.<br/>They had enough fuel for a few days at the most, and that was if they kept the important stuff on at night, like streetlamps, and water. if it was rationed they could stretch it for another day after that, but without the power plant, the city would go dark.<br/>Still a little light might calm people down, let him and the rest of the town do their jobs.<br/>"flip the switch Wally"<br/>and like magic, the street lights came back on.<br/>now to get the water flowing again.<br/>It seemed that whatever happened the underground aquafer that the city drew it's water from was still doing it's job, but when the tap turned the water took a bit to clean up.<br/>He didn't realize the city was sitting atop an untapped source of water, and being untapped it might take a few days for loose silt caused by their arrival started to settle.