[Timesink]

Speculation Time:

It will be very interesting, culturally and politically speaking, to see whether this turns out like the '65 blackout in NYC (where everyone banded together and helped each other, and crime went DOWN ... rather like on 9/11) or more like the NYC blackout of 1977 when the city went up in flames because of, well, the results of twelve years of hardcore liberalism.

What will win out when the sun goes down? The spirit of 9/11 and of eight years of Rudy Giuliani, or the spirit of David Dinkins, Michael Bloomberg and Abe Beame?

[FourtySeven]

THAT............is one chilly post son. :S hehe WHew.

[Peach]

Let's hope it breaks that people work together and help each other rather than looting and killing.

[OXENinFLA]

That's what happend in JAX last year. We were w/o power from 3:30pm to 10:30pm due to fires. Crime was lower than on most nights.

[SamAdams76]

Interesting question. Right now, everything looks stable in NYC. Huge throngs of people are calmly moving through the streets of NYC. For those unfamiliar with NYC, the vast majority of commuters take the trains into Manhattan and now they are out of luck. We are talking millions of people who are going to have to find an alternate way home. Many of them live 20 miles or more away from the city so it's not as if they can just cross a bridge and walk home (though many can who live in Brooklyn, Queens, etc.).

If power is not restored right away, many people are going to have a hard time getting home tonight.

Here in Boston, we have full power. I wonder why we are not blacked out as well as I believed we were all on the same grid (not that I'm complaining).