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Topic: East Coast bloggers' first-hand accounts of blackout
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Rob S  16
08-15-2003 06:37 PM ET (US)
I was at work in Chelsea, Manhattan.

Some photos...

http://tastesgood.org/2003/08/14/index.html#030814161820
Joe ClarkPerson was signed in when posted  17
08-15-2003 11:14 PM ET (US)
Ftrain has some:

http://www.ftrain.com/AsBrooklynSlowlyDrunkened.html

Then of course there's:

http://blackout.textamerica.com/

*I* logged on battery power calling CompuServe in New York from Toronto at 00:02 hours. I validated my HTML and went to bed, where I had unremitting nightmares of restored electricity.

http://fawny.org/blog/2003/08/?bb#gardening-h1

These really shouldn't be hidden in a discussion page.
Vidiot  18
08-16-2003 08:34 AM ET (US)
Chico Bangs' great blogging of the blackout is at http://www.nervousnero.com/chico/eviltwin.html

Jonmc's is at http://www.cockeyedabsurdist.com

Cowboy_Sally is at http://cowboysally.blogspot.com

Roe is at http://www.metrocake.com

And I'm at http://vidiot.typepad.com , with photoblog at http://vidiot.textamerica.com .

(and that's my phonecam picture on BoingBoing, on the left there. w00t!)
Lorna K  19
08-16-2003 11:14 AM ET (US)
I wanted to kick myself for not having my digital camera with me. I was able to at least write about it on my blog at http://www.lornagrl.com
Derek  20
08-16-2003 12:37 PM ET (US)
Online storytelling zine Fray is looking for blackout stories, too: http://fray.com/storyblog/2003/08/15/000267.shtml
Matty  21
08-16-2003 12:56 PM ET (US)
I took about 50 pictures and wrote a little recount of my story. All can be found here: http://www.capndesign.com/archives/2003_08/001681.php
batty  22
08-16-2003 02:05 PM ET (US)
well, thought i'd contribute my own story. we're in cleveland, specifically parma, and spent our blackout at the bowling alley! pictures and the account can be found here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spinmistress/612202.html

its rather amusing.
earnedit  23
08-16-2003 04:36 PM ET (US)
Yeah that sucks. It was funny how people are making fun of France about all those poeple dying from their recent heat wave and ironically we get with a blackout. The truth behind is that we have a very intergrated electrical g rid system that is run and outletted by many companies. The way the energy is sorted and distributed like the concept of bandwith in your computer vis a vis your computer itself were run by companies like enron. This show show that that either ecologically or politically that society as we know it can be shut down. Welcome to the 21st Century and I hope that everyone whose lights were turn out can go back to heir normal lives.

http://milfedup.blogspot.com
http://radio.weblogs.com/0128765
Glitch  24
08-16-2003 05:21 PM ET (US)
Just got to my office to reboot the servers now that power is back on in Midtown, and I pulled the pictures off my camera.

There are so many people hidden in the cement pillars of this town... it's amazing when we all pour and splash out into the streets, flowing like water into any available space. There were some amazing images to capture thursday. I didn't get all of them, but I got a few.
http://www.glitchnyc.com/photos/album.php?...um_ID=52&apa_page=1
Derek  25
08-17-2003 04:02 AM ET (US)
Fray has just published a story about the blackout by NYC-based Dori Mondon: http://fray.com/hope/blackout/

And if you have a blackout story to tell, you're invited to post it, too! http://fray.com/hope/blackout/post/
comeuppance  26
08-17-2003 08:11 AM ET (US)
Wild blackout adventures and photos...
http://pmcg.comeuppance.org/archives/000191.html
Justin  27
08-17-2003 10:12 AM ET (US)
It's interesting to chart the development of online media by disaster coverage. This is undoubtedly the best-covered blackout in the history of the world.

I add another bit - an account of my first overnight sleepover in John F. Kennedy International Airport:

http://www.links.net/daze/03/08/15/camped_out_in_terminal_8.html
Snapbean  28
08-17-2003 09:06 PM ET (US)
Ya man. When the lights went off, I was in Britt, Iowa as a delegate to the National Hobo Convention, and everything was fine there. So what's the problem?
chris  29
08-18-2003 02:32 PM ET (US)
Edited by author 08-18-2003 02:33 PM
http://www.kwota.net/done/001138.html

power was out at my place until saturday morning. i took a bunch of pics but unfortunately the black out killed my primary hard disk so my home machine is out of commision for now. i'm going to sue.
tom  30
08-13-2004 11:38 AM ET (US)
tom  31
08-13-2004 11:51 AM ET (US)
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