[cjsplat]

So maybe the point was to consider a different store or route.

Or look at the traffic and decide if you REALLY want to spend an hour or more in gridlock for whatever activity you are considering.

And maybe wherever you wanted to go is closed because they don't have power either.

It is a perfectly reasonable request.

The fact that you acknowledge that is was a "crisis" implies pretty strongly that you understand that a priority evaluation might be useful.

[guywithahat]

I don't think this was a street, I think SF just experiences rolling blackouts sometimes (unsure if this is due to their forest fire laws, the city buying the grid, or something else, although it seems silly that it's happening at all)