Flickering
Panic flooded his mind as the lights in his kitchen suddenly began to flicker. His heart started pounding and his breathing became rapid as he caught glimpses of his kitchen each time the lights strobed on for a moment. Then everything went black. He fumbled for the light switch and began flipping it up and down but to no avail. It seemed to become very cold in his kitchen and a cold breeze washed over his face.
He fumbled in his pocket and pulled out the flashlight he had taken into the mine. He turned it on and played the beam over the thermostat to see that the temperature had dropped quite far, his breath creating fog clouds in the air. He found this strange but went in search of his fuse box. A fuse had blown or something similar, surely.