As a desperate power company tried to reconnect tens of thousands of other people, Rainfall Productions called to ask if its men would stop by and shut down the village's automatic street lights.
Wherever George Washington may have slept, if he were alive today the place would be surrounded by iron barricades, shut-down roadways and government sharpshooters bearing automatic weapons.
Now, the real fight will be over the automatic spending cuts due to kick in in about two-and-a-half weeks and the government shut-down scheduled for a month after that.