Thursday, August 14, 2003

NE Power Outage

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The 1977 New York Blackout

Our office out on Long Island NY lost power a bit after 4pm, but I still have power down in central Pennsylvania. So... since everyone at the LI office went home, guess I'm going to go out and run errands.

CNN Radio is interviewing the mayor of NYC (govenor of NY?) at the moment and they keep repeating the same questions and Mayor Bloomberg keeps repeating the same answers. Seems like the audio is looped, but I can't hear where the start/end is. They've now cut to a press conference with Con-Ed. Apparently, power is starting to feed back into the grid from the north/west but it's still going to take a few hours (at least) to get power back to NYC.

posted by Wuphon's at 5:50 PM