Danielle?

After weeks and weeks of no activity, a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa is now producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the far eastern Atlantic. Environmental conditions appear generally conducive for gradual development of this system while it moves westward to west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic, and there's a 40% chance a tropical depression could form around the middle part of this week. Murphy's Law holds that it will develop into a full-force hurricane (Hurricane Danielle) and hit Atlanta, Georgia before the month is over.

An odd sound woke me up late last night (around 2:00 a.m.) and I realized it was the power shutting off.  No electricity, but it almost immediately came back on.  I heard it shut off and then come back on again a little later but didn't even bother rolling over to check the hour that second time.  When I woke up this morning, the power was off and didn't come back on again until 10:30 a.m.

A neighbor who's usually in the know about these kinds of things told me that a motorist a couple of blocks away had hit a power pole last night.   That's happened before, especially at the location she mentioned (drunk drivers apparently have a difficult time negotiating a curve in the road at that spot), but it doesn't explain why the power was flickering on and off in the early morning hours.  Either the power pole is down or it's not.  Other than that, life goes on as usual.