When I go see late movies at Arundel Mills up in MD, they shut the lights off there before the movie lets out. Thus, all the moviegoers step out into a dark mall from the movie theater because everything is shut down. However, it's not really that dark because they used nothing but bright and vibrant paint colors when they did all the paintwork on the mall walls, so it's not that bad.

What was bad though was when I took the Metro one time. I went into a station that had no power. The station was open, but the farecard machines weren't working. Thus, I was able to get in without getting a ticket. I took the elevator down 22 stories (its the lowest station on the Metro). When I got off the underground part of the station was pitch black except for maybe one or two emergency lights. I stood out there on the platform for probably 6 minutes in the dark waiting for the train to show up, which it did.

When I got off at the station in downtown DC, the station manager thought I jumped the gate until I insisted she call the station manager where I got on at.