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barbara wilhelm
Citizen
Username: Bartist
Post Number: 46
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 9:51 am: |     |
I was in Maplewood working on an illustration when the power went out around 4:30pm. |
lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1666
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 9:56 am: | |
I was working at home and on the phone with a colleague in NYC. The lights dimmed and the phone went out.
Poor guy lives in Maplewood and brought his kids to work yesterday. I wonder if/how he got home. |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 673
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 10:06 am: | |
I was sitting here typing an IM to my wife that said.."hmm just had a bit of a brown out" and the same exact instant as she, 30 miles away was typing me an IM that said "Hmm just had a bit of a brown out here". Then. "boom boom boom out go the lights!" everywehre except here. we stayed powered up all night. Never lost power for more than a few seconds. But it sure made me save my work on the computer :-) |
Jason & John
Citizen
Username: Johnh91011
Post Number: 44
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 11:53 am: | |
I was in my office at 49th/6th in midtown. Left the office around 5:15p and got home at 11:15p. Was an interesting evening to say the least. |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1855
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 12:44 pm: | |
We were just coming home from a day trip (lower up-state NY)at about 4:15 PM and saw blinking trafic lights at the intersection of Valley Street and Tuscan Road. When we got home a few minutes later, we discovered that those weren't the only lights which were blinking.
Lights came on and off several times and then went out all together at about 5:15 PM. We got back in the car and had a pleasant dinner at a restaurant in Union, where they had not lost power. |
deborahg
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 634
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 3:55 pm: | |
Stuck in Hoboken station with my eight year old daughter...for the next 4 hours. |
Maplewoody
Citizen
Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 279
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 4:30 pm: | |
488 Madison Ave, 2nd floor NYC. Stayed at work until 7PM, watched the masses leaving their work, and saw two valient girls directing the traffic on 52nd Street and Madison Ave. for over 1 + 1/2 hours. The sidewalks thinned out and I hiked down to the PA on 40th, circled a few times looking for a 107 bus, and then walked in the dark down 9th Ave, and down 34th Street to Penn Station. Got there about 8:30, and stayed at the rear door on 31st Street and heard them announcing a Dover train. People were going in thru one door only, single file. The train left at 9PM, and was NOT full. They should have gotten more on it than they did. I got home at 10 PM. Elmwood Ave was pitch black, and our neighbors directly behind us had their lights on, airconditioners running, and they had their BIG flood lights on, lighting their back yard. I fed our dogs, and then drove down South Orange Avenue to Penn Station in Newark to pick up my partner who grabbed a bus from the PA to the Meadowlands, and then another bus to Newark Penn Station. He finally got home about 11PM.
It was a hellish commuting day, much worse than 9-11! |
akl
Citizen
Username: Akl
Post Number: 36
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 7:49 pm: | |
In a windowless conference room, 56th & Madison. LIghts went out, moments of confusion as to whether it was just the building, evacuated the building down PITCH BLACK emergency stairwell (this is outrageous!), managed to get a cell phone call through to my wife in Maplewood. She said the lights had gone out and come back on again and had no idea there was a massive blackout.
I ended up staying overnight with friends in their stifling hot apartment on the Upper Westside. We ventured out at 7pm and stood in line for an hour to buy pizzas. Pizza parlours and ice scream shops seemed to be the only businesses open. Big lines at both. |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1158
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 10:45 am: | |
57th Street. I was standing at the fax machine receiving 10 pager ... as the last page came through I thought it looked a little faint and then ... poof. I walked into my boss' office and grabbed the bioculars b/c right then an army helecopter was flying in front of our window. |
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