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Posted by Wallyhorse on Wed Nov 11 05:47:20 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Nov 10 14:58:09 2015. I remember the lower Manhattan blackout of 1981 very well because I was doing messenger work that afternoon in Manhattan and had gotten dinner before trying to make a phone call and unable to find a phone that work. What was interesting was power along lower Broadway was still generally on (lights were not out), but when I got down to South Ferry to take the M15 bus uptown, that's when I saw what happened.I first had gotten on an M1 that was crowded, but that bus actually got stuck so I eventually walked over and got a Wall Street express bus that was jammed. Ironically, when the bus got on the FDR Drive, traffic was unusually light that evening. Got back to where I lived then about an hour later than I would have otherwise. |
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