Weird Outage

So we get home from stake conference last night ravenous because we didn't get a chance to eat before leaving. We are ready to heat up our roasted veggies and veggie soup (do you see a theme here) and chow down. Approaching our apartment we notice that it's really dark in the breezeway--like no light at all. Inside the apartment is very dark except for a dim light from the lamp which we had left on. That's strange, there's no dimmer on that lamp.
I head back for the bathroom and flip on the bedroom light. It goes on just fine. Oh good, Jim thinks, the power is back on. Not so. The power is just fine in the bedroom and attached bathroom but not in the rest of the apartment.
I just want to know that it's not just us, that someone knows about this problem and is on it. So Jim wanders outside for a while and says he really can't tell. So both of us wander outside for a while and a neighbor shows up asking if we are having power issues. He's having the same issues two floors above us.
We decide that the fridge probably ought to be seen to since the power has already been out for two hours at this point. We plug in the fridge using about four extension cords. Actually before the fridge we moved the microwave to the washer plugged it in and moved the toaster to toast some bread then we heated our veggies in the microwave. Jim collected about a dozen candles, many of them tea light and we ate by candlelight on our dining table.
Then we moved the modem and router to the bedroom, plugged in the laptop and looked up a number for the power company. They said a transformer in our very complex had blown up and caught fire. We should have power back by three am. So we watched a little Burn Notice on the computer and went to bed.
When I woke up in the middle of the night, I heard a noise in the kitchen. In our messing around one of us had turned the fan over the stove on and when the power came on, the fan started up. That was better than the TV blaring out at three am which was what I was afraid was going to happen.
So adventures in power ended our day which had included a Wegmans run and a walk in our woods. I liked the walk in the woods.