Okay....

"Darkness, closer and closer, swallowing everything."

Co-incidental black out. Power returns in a few hours. Meantime Sarah is completely unraveled. While she does not kill her daughter (too late anyway) she does end up in a mental institution. The gay neighbors raise the kid.

The end of the times. "I'll come like a thief in the night".

For some reason people continue think the End of Times will be dramatic, with the sky falling and fire and brimestone.

It will come a calmly as a midsummer' breeze.