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Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Nov 16 20:10:57 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Nov 16 13:31:44 2015. Yes it should have said "a" not "the" but that does not make the subject incorrect at all because there was a big northeast blackout on that date. A second one in 2003 does not change what occurred previously. If I had said, the biggest northeast blackout, then I would have incorrect since a bigger one occurred later in time.Your interpretation that no other event could possibly overshadow it is just your interpretation. It wasn't at all what I had in mind. It has nothing to do with boomer nostalgia. Each blackout was important for its own reasons. The 1965 one was important because it was unprecedented at the time and fifty years is a milestone. I doubt anyone mentioning the 49th anniversary. The 1977 blackout was important because it took some neighborhoods three years to fully recover from one day of looting. The 2003 blackout was important because of the numbers of people it affected. You are reading far too much into what I wrote. And the subject line is not completely wrong as you stated. It would have been completely wrong only if I posted it on the wrong day. |
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