The best thing about a power outage in the middle of a city is that everyone comes out of the buildings and stands around talking—i.e., all the energy comes outside. But it becomes hard to find a place to get a coffee. This is what you get if you try to walk to Stumptown on Pine Street.

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But all the lights are on as soon as you get over to the Denny/East Olive area.

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...

7 replies on “A Walk Down Pine Street During the Power Outage”

  2. You could have the shiniest infrastructure and the smartest grid ever (which we don’t. We have the smartest grid of 1937, which puts up ten years ahead of the curve) and you’ll still have outages.

  5. If the state ran the coffee shops they’d stay open, and your coffee money wouldn’t go to line the pockets of some big city Portland fatcats.

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