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Original Air Date: March 18th, 2013 00:00:06.592 - 00:00:11.498
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WOMAN: I get a text from my husband when I'm at work saying, 00:00:27.593 - 00:00:30.630
"PGE is here to shut us off." 00:00:30.664 - 00:00:32.732
MAN: And they come to my door. 00:00:32.766 - 00:00:34.299
He says, "I'm with PGE, and I need $557 right now, 00:00:34.334 - 00:00:38.845
otherwise I'm going to shut off your electricity." 00:00:38.879 - 00:00:41.048
I was like, "I don't have $557." 00:00:41.082 - 00:00:44.255
WOMAN: I came home. 00:00:47.060 - 00:00:49.395
No lights, no nothing, 00:00:49.430 - 00:00:51.365
and then explaining to the kids when they got home 00:00:51.399 - 00:00:54.134
that we had no electricity... 00:00:54.168 - 00:00:56.637
That was hard. 00:00:56.671 - 00:00:59.342
BOY: With the no lights, 00:01:02.847 - 00:01:05.315
it was hard to get around the house. 00:01:05.349 - 00:01:07.817
And since there was no electricity, 00:01:07.851 - 00:01:09.618
we couldn't cook our food. 00:01:09.652 - 00:01:11.687
GIRL: It was so cold 00:01:14.626 - 00:01:16.694
that me and my baby brother had to curl up on the couch 00:01:16.729 - 00:01:19.598
together, and we had, like, 4 comforters on us. 00:01:19.632 - 00:01:23.069
It was really scary. 00:01:23.103 - 00:01:26.006