NYC Blackout Images and Captions

misc. | 8/15/03

[finnman69]

DAY TWO In Manhattan, the sun is rising but the lights are still out.

Commuters sleep on the steps of the Post Office on 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue in New York during the early hours of Friday, after being stranded by the city's electrical blackout.

A huge power failure swept through parts of the Northeast, Midwest and Canada on Thursday, shutting down trains, subways and airports from New York City to Detroit, forcing people into the streets.

At the ferry terminal on west 38th St., thousands of people without access to the subways and trains flocked to catch ferries, creating another form of gridlock.

Passengers on the downtown A train were stuck underground for two hours before being led out by MTA employees.

Waterway buses to Weehawken were filled to capacity.

Transit workers escorted riders off a subway car on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Pedestrians clogged the Brooklyn Bridge as the power outage brought life to a standstill.

Dozens of people at the Lincoln Tunnel jumped on a truck to get a ride through the tunnel to New Jersey.The police made them all get off the truck.

The hallways of Saint Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan were dark after the blackout. Power generators lit emergency and patient care areas.

The whole of the city was dark and the setting sun painted one building.

[hellinahandcart]

I'll just bet there was some extra fickie-fick taking place last night.

It was TOO HOT.

There was a baby boom after the '65 blackout, but that happened in the lovely month of November...

[nutmeg]

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[Oschisms]

Thanks for the pings. I haven't been able to read them till now. As posted on the NYS board:

Power finally came back on the Upper East Side above 77th St. at 6:00pm

I was quite chagrined to walk around today and see power restored South of here, North of here and west of here.

When I got home from work yesterday, I made sure my elderly aunt was OK (She had just returned from shopping when it hit. If she was 10 minutes later, she would have been stranded downstairs)

After I filled up every pot in the house with water, checked my ramen noodle supply, and opened the windows, there was nothing to do but go out drinking. Only took me 5 blocks to find a place with a backup generator.

I used a small pocket knife to cut my pant legs off for the walk home (7 miles) and a small keychain LED to find my way around the house- both items found in the NRA catalog for under 20$ each. Membership has it's priveledges. (sp)

We burned my baptismal candles last night, not quite the holy occasion that one would ideally put blessed candles to use, but that's OK.

You'd be surprised how refreshed one can get taking a mock shower with 2 pots of water and a washcloth.

Work tommorrow has been cancelled (Yee hah)

[Ferret Fawcet]

Thanks for the pics!

I can't help but wonder, where on earth did all those people go to... you know, use the bathroom?

[Momaw Nadon]

[katze]

Check in, please, when you can.

[finnman69]

They went in the street. Ron Kuby on 77WABC this am was discussing the latrine stench in the streets around Penn Station and Grand Central.

[finnman69]

Love the Statue of Liberty on its on power.

[stanz]

Thanks for the pix. I think I might have been on that Weehawken ferry shuttle bus.

[honeygrl]

Well, where else do you sleep? It would be too hot inside any building.

[P.O.E.]

Excellent pics. Thanks!

[honeygrl]

"Why isn't Hillary in there, sleeves rolled up, working to solve the problem ? "

She'll just rush Chelsea there as the lights come back on and claim Chelsea was there for the whole thing and feared for her life...

[Mannaggia l'America]

Please tell me that's an edited screenshot. PLEASE!

It's not! It was first posted by Diddle E. Squat on this thread, but for another reason (Banfield's picture).

I just happened to notice it. It's kind of catchy - like "All your base are belong to us".

CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE TIME TO GET RID OF THE ANT!

Let's pass it on to Arnold!

[Delta 21]

http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/02/fire.ant.invasion/

Pesky Ant!

[FreeReign]

Pretty rotten day over there, I'd say. Looking at those photos of the NYC chaos and confusion. Sheesh. Still, from the visual perspective of perhaps somebody in the pestilant Third World (India, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Guatemala, etc.), they might look at these NYC photos and say 'what's the big deal? We live this way EVERY DAY!". They probably think Americans are weak crybabies over this whole, one-day thing. In a larger way, well, maybe they are.

I think most people who experienced this blackout didn't think it was that big a deal -- "they didn't act like weak crybabies".

What makes you think that they did?

[Lady Jag]

Honey, what I've seen people do on the sidewalks of NYC I'd have stood up all night.

[Veracious Poet]

Thanks for the photos...

I started my experience in the Blackout in a tunnel under the east river...I was the first one off the train, after 5 minutes I walked back to the station we'd just left with a couple of guys.

Then I drove into the city to get my wife, what a nightmare that was!

Thank God the power came back on in Williamsburg this afternoon...I could hardly sleep last night.

Heads should roll over this insanity...of course people are so busy complimenting each other on how great they were during the crisis, no one has the cahonas to say WTF! happened?

BTW, there was looting in East New York last night (no surprise there), some LEOs I know told me that several stores were sacked by semi-organized mobs, of course it was not reported to prevent it from spreading...

[jhw61]

What wonderful pictures throughout this thread. BUT, what is so striking and so utterly sad is.......the absence of the Twin Towers. How that gets to me so. You ever notice how many movies have been produced with the Twin Towers in the backdrop...gives me a big lump in my throat everytime.

Kudos to New Yorkers. They deserve praise. Just imagine if 9/11 had happened in your city and then this...it's big, important and most Americans are so proud that they didn't wake up this morning to the nasty stories that CNN and the liberal media was ever-so panting for. I Love New York! God Bless You!

[finnman69]

Wait till September 11th. They will be showing the pillars of light again

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!