People move around Times Square without the convenience of electricity during a massive power outage in New York on August 14, 2003. Sweltering New Yorkers were hit by a giant power blackout on Thursday that stranded thousands of commuters, trapped subway riders underground and evoked fearful memories of the September 11 attacks. REUTERS/Chip East
Email this slideshow Seen from Jersey City, New Jersey, the lights of a New York Waterways ferry streak across the water in front of the darkened New York Manhattan skyline after a massive power outage hit the Northeast on August 14, 2003. On New York City's darkest night in more than a quarter century, thousands of residents, stranded suburban commuters and tourists set up camp wherever they could early Friday in a desperate attempt to catch some shut-eye. Photo by Tony Kurdzuk/Reuters
Jersey City, N.J. commuters exit and enter the Waterway Ferry at Grand Street. in Jersey City N.J. , Friday, Aug., 15, 2003. Thursday's power outage caused commuter rail and bus lines to operate on limited schedules and officials said ferry traveler was lower than usual (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)
People sleep on the floor of New York's Grand Central Terminal early August 15, 2003 after the biggest power outage in North American history blacked New York City and other major U.S. and Canadian cities. Thousands of people waited for trains that could not run due to the outage. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen
Email this slideshow A woman sleeps on the floor of New York's Grand Central Terminal early August 15, 2003 after the biggest power outage in North American history blacked New York City and other major U.S. and Canadian cities. The clock shows the time the power went out in New York City as 4:10 PM on August 14. Thousands of people waited for trains that could not run due to the outage. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen
Email this slideshow A line of several hundred people wait for busses in New York on August 15, 2003. Most train service ws knocked out after the biggest power outage in North American history blacked out New York and other major U.S. and Canadian cities on August 14. The commuters shown here, many of whom spent last night in the city, were boarding busses that would take them to a connection with a deisel powered train outside the city. REUTERS/Peter Morgan
Commuters sleep on the steps of the Post Office on 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue in New York during the early hours of Friday, Aug. 15, 2003 after being stranded following the city's electrical blackout. The blackout occurred across much of northeastern United States and Canada. (AP Photo/ Mike Appleton)
A news vendor works by candlelight in New York's Times Square shortly after midnight Friday, Aug. 15, 2003. A power outage hit most of northeastern United States Thursday afternoon, leaving the city in the dark. (AP Photo/Joe Kohen)
People gather near a police emergency truck in Times Square in New York early August 15, 2003 after the biggest power outage in North American history blacked out New York and other major U.S. and Canadian cities. Millions of people were left in the dark and thousands of commuters were stranded
Email this slideshow People move around without the convenience of electricity during a blackout in New York on August 14, 2003. After the biggest power outage in U.S. history struck late Thursday afternoon, many people were stranded without lodging and forced to make beds of newspaper, cardboard or clothing and camp out on sidewalks, office building foyers, parking garages and church pews amid the clawing humidity. REUTERS/Chip East
People with no place to go after they were not allowed into their hotel, the Marriott Marquis in New York's Times Square, wait on the sidewalk outside of the hotel early Friday morning Aug. 15, 2003, following a massive power outage that darkened much of the northern United States. (AP Photo/Joe Kohen)
People fill the street in Herald Square in New York August 14, 2003 after a blackout hit the city. Massive power outages hit New York and other cities in the northeastern United States and Canada, trapping thousands in crowded subways and forcing the evacuation of office buildings. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)
Traffic trying to leave New York City crawls up Lexington Avenue after the city suffered an electrical blackout August 14, 2003. Sweltering New Yorkers were hit by a giant power blackout that covered the much of the Northeast part of the country and stranded thousands of commuters, trapped subway riders underground and evoked fearful memories of the September 11 attacks.
