there were electric lights shining in some of the buildings - where there were gennies at work - and battery-powered emergency lights shining in burpee 's department store , the gas and grocery , mill new sc used books , food city at the foot of main street hill , and half a dozen others , but the streetlights were dark and there were candles shining in the windows of most of main street 's second-floor windows , where there were apartments .