Did Anyone Watch American Blackout on NatGeo last night? (vanity)

National Geograph ^

[who knows what evil?]

It was the “Ice Storm of ‘98”. Most of western Quebec including Montreal, and all of eastern Ontario, and all the way down to northern New York lost power. Crews came from everywhere. Our home had no power for 6 days. For some it was weeks.

I had friends north of Burlington in Vermont that were without power for thirty days. I saw Jim Cantore broadcasting from a parking lot in Burlington...always a bad sign. We never got any freezing rain/ice where we lived (about thirty miles away), nor did we lose power. Cantore couldn't explain it...said it was just 'one of those things'. G-d took care of us.

[ansel12]

It turns out to have been Randall Robinson writing for ‘the Huffington Post’, and he didn’t report cannibalism until the 4th day. He has since retracted it, but I do remember the media spreading his “report”.

“It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html

[CPO retired]

I think a cul-de-sac suburban street with cooperating neighbors would be almost as good as a gated 55+ place. Maybe even better (more physically able bodies). I like that idea much better than bugging out to the mountains or boonies.

19.5 miles up the road from me are many unoccupied summer cabins at 5500 feet altitude. I’ve thought of bugging out to one (with or without permission of the owner) if I have to bug out.

[gundog]

Yep. One of my earliest memories of media savagery was in the wake of the “picaninny” incident.

[machogirl]

local media had a field day with EV. sad, he was a nice guy whom they decided to harass.

[mykroar]

Agree, my brother and I thought it was good. A little tame, possibly to allow it a little wider audience.

[mykroar]

Not really, prob had an electric can opener only....

[mykroar]

He did, but only after about 8 days. I thought it funny that the dryer was what alerted the kid when the power came back on.....apparently he wa conscientious enough to turn off all the powerless lights. Lol

[TigersEye]

I would expect a yuppie like him to have a couple of electrics and three or four designer can openers in the drawer.

[PghBaldy]

Thank you for the info and the replies.

[Smokin' Joe]

That idiot slicing into the can of peaches with a huge carving knife had me skidding away. Why is it always the canned peaches? Another novel I read, the girl was eating a can of peaches at a swapmeet,after when the government helicopters came in to herd everyone into a valley to massacre them.

Because, given a choice, canned peaches are waaay preferable to the green beans (Not to mention the ham and lima beans).