Here's a pic of what they were working on up the block.
They went around and pulled some connectors that went from the high tension lines to the poles with transformers on them to disconnect us from the grid.
My big problem now is I can't seem to keep my wife's iPad connected to the internet when she shuts the cover to shut it down. I tried to set it up the way it was before I messed with it prior to the outage but haven't had much luck.