NYC Blackout Images and Captions

misc. | 8/15/03

[finnman69]

DAY TWO In Manhattan, the sun is rising but the lights are still out.

Commuters sleep on the steps of the Post Office on 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue in New York during the early hours of Friday, after being stranded by the city's electrical blackout.

A huge power failure swept through parts of the Northeast, Midwest and Canada on Thursday, shutting down trains, subways and airports from New York City to Detroit, forcing people into the streets.

At the ferry terminal on west 38th St., thousands of people without access to the subways and trains flocked to catch ferries, creating another form of gridlock.

Passengers on the downtown A train were stuck underground for two hours before being led out by MTA employees.

Waterway buses to Weehawken were filled to capacity.

Transit workers escorted riders off a subway car on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Pedestrians clogged the Brooklyn Bridge as the power outage brought life to a standstill.

Dozens of people at the Lincoln Tunnel jumped on a truck to get a ride through the tunnel to New Jersey.The police made them all get off the truck.

The hallways of Saint Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan were dark after the blackout. Power generators lit emergency and patient care areas.

The whole of the city was dark and the setting sun painted one building.

[cake_crumb]

Um...you're effort is appreciated and perhaps needed by third world lurkers, of which we have a few. It's unecessary, however. The only ones crying are the leftist politicians and their pet talking heads. Tomorrow, we know that Welfare or SSI dependent voters will be dredged up by the media to flaunt before the eyes of the world as proof of how Americans are crybabies, thus perpetuating the favorit myth of those who hate us.

TODAY, however, is for mainstream Americans to remember. That's between 70 and 80 percent of us.

Also, never forget this: if it had happened in France, no doubt 3,000 people would have died in the oppressive heat overnight.

[Arpege92]

As a New Yorker, I am very lucky that I lost power for only five hours. The folks stuck in the city had it really bad!

[firewalk]

bttt

[eniapmot]

I used to live in NY. I can imagine the BO.

[rmlew]

cool image. Hope never to see anything like it again!

[katnip]

Great thread and pictures! Thank you.

I walked from Penn Station over the 59th street bridge with a young woman I never met before. She and I struck up a conversation at Penn, neither of us wanted to spend the night on the street.

So we walked to her home in Astoria where she and her family welcomed me to spend the night (imagine that! a total stranger).

So many angels live in NY.....

[rmlew]

They find the source of the smell yet?

[katnip]

Here ya go!

Third World Laughs at Blackout Woes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/964911/posts

[Socratic]

Has anyone else noticed a marked decrease in spam last night and today?

[mathluv]

You need to find/read Neal Cavuto's Common Sense for today. Things (human interest) happened that weren't on the news.

[discostu]

Now that you mention it my overnight spam was about half of normal. Hmmmm.

[mathluv]

I don't know about the truth. I haven't read a lot of unhappy people, just people sharing their stories.

By the way, Ben Franklin 'discovered' electricity over 200 years ago. Americans have worked HARD to become what we are. We have not always had all these 'helping hands' from gov't or anyone else. Americans pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and made America what it is. Why have none of these other countries made that effort?

[Mannaggia l'America]

CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE TIME TO GET RID OF THE ANT!

(sorry - I just think it's funny)

[Socratic]

I think it's funny too.

[cake_crumb]

Please tell me that's an edited screenshot. PLEASE!

[mathluv]

Here is a related thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/964576/posts
CHENEY WARNS U.S. ON ENERGY (article from 3/21/01)

[jmc813]

Thanks for adding all the great shotys. I've put this thread on my homepage.

[sakic]

How 2/3rds of the world is doing, has no relevance to most of the people on this board unless it has a direct affect.

How sad for people who share your outlook.