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08/15/2003 08:01:42 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by ttreit:
[quote=rmahan]I'm in Rockland County NY just North of New Jersey on the west side of the Hudson River. Our power has just come back on and was off for about 5 hours. [quote]
I used to live in Nyack. I heard that the outage had hit Manhatten but had no idea it was that widespread. Not the best time of year to lose your air conditioning! |
Hey, I used to live in Nyack too. My whole life infact. I just moved to California recently. |
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08/15/2003 09:42:10 PM · #27 |
as of 9ish pm, the city that never sleeps is brightly lit once again!
Message edited by author 2003-08-15 21:43:41. |
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08/15/2003 09:52:49 PM · #28 |
I was quite lucky with power out for just 5 hours. Some people in Manhattan have had power out for over 24 hours! One source (a relative) in NYPD said that they are HOPING to have all 5 boros back to normal by Monday. Subways are STILL not running and they say it will take 8 hours even after all power is restored.
Most of Rockland County seems pretty normal. My bank didn't have complete computer systems this morning but they were open for business and got everything done that I needed done. I am at the Suffern end of the county and travelled as far as Nanuet. All traffic lights are working now. The trains into the city didn't run today giving me a day off. They say they will be running normally by Monday.
Losing your air conditioning is a minor inconvenience. Yes it's pretty hot right now. But I'd rather lose my a/c in the summer than my heat in the winter. All a matter of keeping things in perspective. I'm also glad that I don't own a deli or a restuarant or convenience store and have to throw out food that has spoiled. That's got to be a ton of money these people are losing. And, some insurance policies won't cover these loses when they are due to power failures.
At least there was only one death caused by all of this. That was someone who had a heart attack after walking down 24 flights of stairs.
As far as the extent of the blackout, our newspapers say that it went from Michigan to New Hampshire and from Canada through New Jersey. Maine and Vermont weren't hit from what I've heard. All who were blacked out share a power grid and something took the whole thing down in just about five seconds. Scary, isn't it!
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08/16/2003 07:40:46 AM · #29 |
I live up in northern ontario and we were out of power for 18.5 hours
My bf and I and our neighbors had a huge pajama party and sat outside and drank and played cards at night. We sat on the lawn during the day and drank and played trivial pursuit. We lost power at 4pm and didn't get it back til like 11:30 yesterday morning. Hasn't even been 24 hours yet. Looking back on the whole thing it was pretty fun to sit around in the dark and play games |
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08/16/2003 08:18:44 AM · #30 |
| This website has a photo of the New York skyline all in the dark //www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=38709 |
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08/16/2003 09:29:51 AM · #31 |
Detroit here. . .We got our power back last night around 9 - internet just kicked in at 9:15 Saturday morning.
Freaky.
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