A week passed in a strange blur of excitement and monotony. Some of the excitement came from piecing together just how they’d found themselves in this unexpected and unprecedented predicament. From radio reports, Griff learned that the blackout was the result of a gigantic solar flare – one that shot into Earth’s atmosphere like a billion hydrogen bombs and took down the power grid in the entire Northern Hemisphere. In a weird way, there was something exhilarating about this, that something so big and radical was going on, something significant enough to rock society to its core and cause a large-scale disruption of the status quo. Everyone knew that the…