Crisis level elevated: Condo residents can't make coffee, watch Montel, Google selves

The Pioneer Press reported Thursday morning that residents of City Walk Condominiums had been without electricity for approximately...27 hours. An entire day without electricity?! That's akin to going a full day without a fresh Golden Raisin Scone from Turtle Bread Co. How do they do it? Not well, apparently: According to the Pi Press, the condo residents were feeling "powerless" yesterday morning, a dreary and wet one it was, and were forced to leave their downtown dwellings for coffee since the outage left them unable to brew their own at home. The predicament sparked this headline: "Caffeine deprived condo residents feeling powerless."

This relevant story of desperation got us thinking about other such stories we'd like to see in the Pioneer Press. Yesterday, for example, the entire CP offices were without long distance for almost an hour. Staffers needing to make long-distance calls during that brief period were forced to use their cell phones instead. And others, either without cell phones or a decent service plan, were forced to wait it out in their cubes. Possible headline: "CP staffers want to go the (long) distance, but can't."

Or perhaps, since the paper only focuses its lens on that side of the river, they can call on St. Paul resident B. Davis for her harrowing tale. Davis' one-bedroom apartment has been infested with moths and their little larvae since she moved in last month. "My landlord has been promising to take care of it," she says. "But for now have to keep all my clothes in plastic containers." Possible headline: "Hole-y wars: Moth problem has St. Paul resident all eaten up."