A Sunny Disaster — Pete Thorsen

A man living the life of a hermit by choice is surprised when he makes a rare visit to the nearby small town to find that there is no electric power there. He then learns that because of something that the sun did to our world that the electric power will likely not be coming back on for quite some time. He goes back to living his hermit lifestyle but eventually by doing a simple humanitarian act he finds himself smack dab in the middle of someone else's problems.