Urban darkness

We lost power in my neighborhood for three days and three nights. This is what the street looks like in the dark, with just car headlights sweeping across or bearing down from the end of the avenue where there was power.



It is a weird thing to walk around in urban darkness. I thought it would be scary because, you know, you can't see. You hear something and see a dark person-shape but you have no idea what kind of person it is. But similarly, as a five-foot-three Asian girl, people can't tell that I'm a victim-waiting-to-happen. I could be a burly dude, you just can't tell. So I found that I actually feel pretty comfortable in the darkness, where people are just as wary of me as I am of them.