At 1:00 AM Saturday, the power went out for about an hour. The temperature outside was 7 degrees. It didn’t take long for the temperature in the house to drop 5 degrees, which is what woke me up.
Xcel Energy got the power back on. The cause was a car hitting a pole with a transformer next to Patrick McGovern’s restaurant, which started a fire that damaged the building. Night-time power outages are scary on cold winter nights. Thanks to the Xcel Energy workers who were out there in the cold restoring power.
I hope the turret in the picture can be repaired.

With so many bars on West 7th Street, it is amazing that there aren’t more incidents where cars crash into buildings but there have been a few.