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The Introduction: The Day the Sky Went Out At 4:31 a.m. on January 17, 1994, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake shattered the before-dawn silence of Los Angeles. Darkness swept through the city after the electricity grid refused to work for the first time in a century. In the hours that followed, local emergency centers and the Griffith Observatory received a flurry of panicked phone calls. In addition to reporting the tremors, residents were terrified by a giant, silver cloud hangin