lute@abnjh.UUCP (J. Collymore) (11/09/84)
Well, as of this posting, it is 19 years to the day that the Northeast United States experienced the greatest, accidental, blackout in history. It seems hard to believe that millions of us were plunged into blackness at the same time over thousands of sqaure miles. Imagine what it must have been like if you were in a jet preparing for landing at a major airport, and suddenly as far as you could see everything went black!? Well, such an event would probably leave lasting impressions in most of our minds, (whether we were on an airplane or not). So I was wondering if some of you would like to post what you were doing when the lights went out. This assumes that whatever you were doing was not TOO embarassing! As for me, I was 12 years old, sitting at the kitchen table doing what I hated most... MATH HOMEWORK. Overall, the blackout provided the best excuse (to this day) why I couldn't get my work done. At that point in my life, I thought it was the "neatest" thing ever, but what do you want from a 7th grader?! So how about the rest of you? Do you remember what you were doing the night all the lights went out? Jim Collymore
marc@mouton.UUCP (11/12/84)
> So how about the rest of you? Do you remember what you were doing the night > all the lights went out? 19 years - how time flies. We lived in one of the sections of Brooklyn that wasn't directly hit by the great blackout, but it was scarier that way. Consider how you would feel if suddenly all the TV and radio stations went out for no apparent reason (hmmm where is the nearest fall-out shelter). Eventually we tuned in to one of the neighboring radio stations and found out what was going on. (Remember, these were the days when you didn't just have fire drills in school - you had nuke drills... "Class, take cover". Marc Pucci PS: I also remember it was my sister's first day at work. She was one of the lucky ones stuck on the D train for hours.
dwc@hou2b.UUCP (D.CHEN) (11/21/84)
I was only seven years old at the time but I still remember bits and pieces of it. I was going to Chinese School (after REGULAR School) and everything went crazy. My father had to come and get us from the school and everyone was walking around with candles. The funny thing was that I remember it to be a Tuesday because I was very disappointed that i could not watch Woody Woodpecker at 7 or 7:30 that night. Am I right about this? Danny Chen