Except the numbers that you’re talking about are radically different from the numbers they are talking about. What you’re talking about is something that was probably 10 times or 20 times the average consumption, not 3 times. You’re also talking about something where they’re actually was a clear physical danger and crimes obviously being committed.

I don’t think many people would be particularly surprised if the power company were finding people stealing power and calling the cops on them.

A headline that says nothing at all, lol.

Some time after I went OpenBSD and then FreeBSD nerd.

qpdf is handy for merging PDFs. Command line but quick to learn for most usage.

Exactly. Reverse DNS lookup matters in some situations.