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.

[arasina]

LOL! So well written it's almost believable...scary! :o)

[arasina]

Why aren't people asking Bitchface this question: "HOW did YOU allow this to happen?!!"

[FreeReign]

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?

To me, there is something very comforting about a massive failure in governance. It only proves less likely the thing we Freepers fear most.

They can't maintain a power grid, they can''t keep the public restrooms clean -- how the heck are they every going to rule the world?

[nutmeg]

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

When I pinged you earlier, I meant to say: "Can you find yourself in these photos?" :-)

[paulklenk]

all okay here

[tdadams]

I happen to agree with you, AIT, even if the majority here are going to be belligerent about your thoughtful expression. Far too many Americans are isolated, ignorant, and unsympathetic about anything outside of their own little world.

[tdadams]

I think most people who experienced this blackout didn't think it was that big a deal

That's true, and I was very proud to see how civilized (courteous even) New Yorkers were through this ordeal.

As I said earlier in the thread, a lot of credit goes to Rudy Guiliani who made NYC altogether more decent and civilized in his wake.

I hate to think what might have happened if this occured during the Dinkins administration.

[windchime]

BTT

[not-an-ostrich]

Yeah we're lucky, but confusion and frustration are self-induced emotional responses. I think most of those "2/3 of the world's population" are happy and adaptable in their space in the world.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

he he!

[stanz]

Yes. I was the barefoot one sitting on the bus steps!

[Mike-o-Matic]

Best laugh I've had all day! Thanks!

[Mike-o-Matic]

Them ants suuuure is big.

[TheMom]

Ping for later!

[TheMom]

Pimg

[sarasota]

On the book tour. Getting the needed "strokes" from her "subjects". Although I believe she was calling from NYC during the blackout as she said she was speaking to her devotees (interns) when it hit.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thanks. Good observation. And that is neither a conservative nor a liberal observation nor position. It is just common sense, and has been evidenced many times over for me to somehow not be true (and it is irritating to bring up to fellow Americans, as seen on this thread. truth can be irritating, especially when jingoist sacred cows are stepped on).