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?
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.