adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) (11/14/84)
*** YOUR MESSAGE *** Now I really feel old. I didn't think that I remembered anything from 19 years ago, but I remember that blackout. I was 4 years old and living in Manhattan. All I remember is my brother (2 years older) and I sitting on the floor in the kitchen, in front of the candles, singing to keep from being scared. I also remember looking out of our 10th floor window and being amazed that the traffic lights weren't working and that all the other buildings were dark. It was the first time I'd ever seen cars actually NEEDING headlights to see where they were going. -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "Computers are like preppies: they just boil around in their own way and you have to do things their way or they blow you off." "Everything that was different was a different thing..."
hollis@ucf-cs.UUCP (William ) (11/15/84)
Funny, I remember that blackout too. All I remember about it was that it was pitch black where I was, and we had to light candles, but that there was lights on (if I remember correctly) in the distance. We were on a semi hill at the time. Now all of you that lived thru the Great Blackout, give some little rememberence. Ken
ems@amdahl.UUCP (E. Michael Smith) (11/21/84)
> Funny, I remember that blackout too. All I remember about it was that it was > pitch black where I was, and we had to light candles, but that there was lights > on (if I remember correctly) in the distance. 19 years? Seems like only a decade ago ... Out here in California the great blackout was only a news story. I was growing up in a rural farm town. We had flaky power lines that went down at least once each winter. Most people wondered what all the fuss was about. Just another power outage. Why don't those Easterners just light up the kerosene lamp again... -- E. Michael Smith ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems These opinions are mine, all mine. Keep your mitts off! Anyone found attributing these opinions to another will be viciously taunted until he/she relents.
cwh@drutx.UUCP (Hoffmeyer) (11/26/84)
It seems to me that the blackout *was* on a Tuesday. I was a sophomore attending Xavier High School (16th Street anybody?) and I was lucky enough to have left school *that* day at 3 on the button. The trick was to get on a southbound D or F from 16th St. and 6th Ave, and make it to West 4th St. in time to catch the uptown A. If the A "clicked" on that run (and didn't get screwed up around either 7th Ave. or around the Museum of Natural History) I could make it to 178th St. in 45 minutes, in time to catch the Red & Tan 20 to Pearl River - whew! I had just gotten home and was using the toaster when all heck broke loose - my mother accused me of knocking out the circuit breaker in our house. Later on, of course, it became evident that I was responsible for knocking out the Northeast corridor.............as mothers do, she later accused me of that too! But it *can't*, it just can't be *19 years ago*..... Caesar's bust is on the shelf, and I don't feel so well myself. From the carefully crafted Gothic interior of WB2YHE - Carl drutx!cwh