At 5/20/08 05:49 PM, TSstudios wrote:
NO ONE had power for 1 1/2 days.
Wrong. Some people have generators, some buildings (hospitals) have generators, and a town (don't know the name) out here on LI has it's own power station off the grid so that entire town had power.
For me, also 13 at the time, I was in summer camp playing the arcade version of TMNT when the screen went blank. I though that a consoler hit the breaker (as they often did the assholes) but no, all the lights were out except for the emergency lights. It was weird going home, all the street lights were out and they were out all the way home, sort of scary.
When I got home, I found my laptop had BSOD'd on me when I shut it down the night before, so the battery was on it's knees (not like I could have done anything though). The phone started to ring, my mom was unaware that we had an old phone in the house that didn't need power, so I answered it. My dad's friend was on the other end and he told me just how large this black out was. Whoa!
Wait. No one is going to read all that...
Day was spent doing kid stuff outside, and looking at all the stars at night.
