Auckland's Apocalypse

AUCKLAND, New Zealand: Residents of New Zealand's largest city are living a '70s post-apocalypse movie plot line, with no electricity for the past five days. Auckland's office towers and stores are dark and empty, except for police patrolling against looters, after all four power cables to the city center failed last Friday. Authorities have not yet been able to determine the cause of the outage, which has cost businesses tens of millions of dollars. Health officials are warning against the consumption of food that has begun to rot in the city's refrigerators, and with full power scheduled to be restored only by March 8, Auckland's 350,000 residents have plenty of time (and cause) to contemplate the evils of city living.