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Posted by randyo on Mon Nov 9 16:14:21 2015, in response to Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Nov 9 13:28:14 2015. My mother and I were in the A & P shopping and one of the items were were purchasing was a box of light bulbs. The lights went pot in the store and the manager grabbed a pencil and wrote down the prices of the items on a paper bag ant totaled them up since the cash registers weren’t working. I then looked across the street at the 5 & 10 store and its lights were out also. Commenting on the light bulbs, my mother commented. that we probably wouldn’t need them with the power out. We went home to a dark apartment and decided to go to the local bar for a drink or 2 or 3 and as we were walking down the block, there was a man listening to his car radio and we heard that the blackout had affected the entire northeast. Power came back on about 430 the next morning and when I went down to the subway to go to school, I could hear the air compressors on the trains working away and a transit patrolman told me the subways still weren’t running yet so I went back home for the day. |
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