DAY TWO In Manhattan, the sun is rising but the lights are still out.
Posted on 08/15/2003 11:35:58 AM PDT by 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.
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