The Electromagnetic Field That Froze the World

A company was creating some sort of weird device that they were being very secretive about. They built it onto already standing power stations and cell phone towers. It looked like a giant metal sheet, but no one knew what it was, though I remember one person saying it was something electromagnetic. When the company finally activated it, it froze time and left the world in complete blackness. I remember I was sitting somewhere up high, at a table, next to Jimmy. I noticed it was getting darker in the middle of the day, so I turned around to look and saw that the weird device was slowly turning the sky black. Once everything went black, I grabbed Jimmy's hand in fear. We soon left the area to go find my mother, who was living in a weird place with a bunch of bunk beds. She was frozen in time, so we carried her out. When we got back, everyone who was still unfozen was lined up by bunk beds like military personnel. Someone was trying to make us stay for some reason. We all left the bunk bed place and left a note saying we had decided to go stay at a nearby villiage. It was really just a couple of western style buildings, but we got by. We lived by candle light as Amish people. Somehow the daylight had come back and we were moving about, but the electricity was still gone. I remember saying I wondered if we would still age even though everything around us was frozen in time. I was told we would because we were not frozen. As I was attempting (and failing) to light some flower shaped candles, Jimmy's dad showed up, and the lights came back on, and all the frozen people unfroze, so we all went back to our normal lives. I headed back home, thinking that we would have enough gasoline for me to ride my go kart.
I also recall something about bees and a go kart earlier, but don't quite recall all the details.