Word: blackout
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When the power went out on my office-building floor during the afternoon of the great blackout last month, I thought it was my fault. Not that I, a mere intern at ABC News in New York, caused the dilapidation of the power grids, of course—but I had been the last one to touch the water cooler just before it began buzzing oddly and my entire floor lost power. I had finished off the last jug of water and intended to make the custodians’ job easier by removing the old one before they replaced...
...blackout was a memorable rite of passage that will serve as a milestone in people’s lives. All those who went through the 1965 and 1977 blackouts distinctly recall where they were at the time, what their lives were like, where they were living, where they were working and how they had originally planned to spend the day. They also remembered what tribulations they went through to get home, what hardships they faced and how they ultimately made it, just like everyone else...
They will remember this year’s blackout with unique fondness because of the character and camaraderie of New Yorkers on that...
...last time Americans’ daily routines ground to a halt—the last time people flooded across bridges out of Manhattan—was after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The day after the blackout began, an editorial by The New York Times predicted that people caught without power “will remember where they were when the lights went out, and will tell one another that for a few minutes, they wondered whether terrorists had struck again.” The knowledge that the blackout was not the result of an attack spread quickly over...
...East Coast-Midwest power blackout in August almost woke President Bush from...