Anniversary of the 2003 North America Blackout
Posted by Doug Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:50:00 GMT
It turns out today is the four year anniversary of the blackout that had 40 million Americans and 10 million Canadians without power. I was in Cleveland at the time. Here’s my story of Sitting in the Dark.
I wrote that article using the last remaining minutes of my laptop battery. The whole thing freaked me out a bit as you can tell by the writing. To this day I make sure I travel with a flashlight. I hate to recycle material here on my blog, but I enjoyed the flashback.
I had to walk up Broadway through Times Square to the Upper West Side in Manhattan.
In a suit.
There were thousands of us, suit-wearing pig-sweating geeks walking up Broadway, in the middle of the street.
Remembering how unpleasantly eerie Times Square was, with all the lights turned off, silent; and it gives me the heebie jeebies to this day.