What did you do during the blackout?

[Heavy]

Well the power was out for about 17 hours over here. First thing i did when the power went out was turned on a radio to accompany me while i went to check the breakers. Of course I heard that power was out in Cleveland, Detriot, Toronto etc and I decided it wasnt just my house. When I heard all these citties were out I thought terrorism was as likely a culprit as anything else and my first instinct was to grab a kinife and stab an Arab in the heart, but soon after this, they ruled terrorism out. So, i took a quick shower and went outsidewith my radio and sat with my nieghbor out in front of his place. I actually ventured out for ice about 45 minutes after the blackout hit, but the lines were outside the friggin doors already! fuck that. So anyway nightfall was upon us and i listened to the Yankee game and drank alot of beer. Then I went in my tent and fell asleep I woke up at 5:30 with a chill so i came inside, and a radio woke me up at 7 when the power came back on.

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[Snoogans]

i fell asleep like 15 min after it went out and didnt wake up til my mom woke me up to say the power was on. thats was about 10 last night. i said ok and went back to sleep and woke up at 5 o clock this morning. i was pissed though cause the power was on but my optimum was out, and by the way at my house it still is. thank god im at work and can go online

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[Spank Daddy]

Mmmmmmm, let's see.........I played my electric guitar while watching TV, cruised the internet on my computer while sitting in my air conditioned home..............there was a power shortage ??

Seriously, most of the Jersey shore was spared. All I had was a 1 second outage when it first happened that tripped my circut breaker, and all I had to do was reset. I watched TV all night and marveled at how well the people coped with this, and hoped for the best for all those people stuck in elevators and subway cars.

[Snoogans]

it was all kind of crazy zoning. north haledon still has no power, rockland still has no cable, but creskill never lost cable. it was so patchy that my name had power 20 min before me

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Silent Bob you one rude motherfucker, she like to go down on you, suck you. line up 2 other guys and make like a circus seal


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[FUNKMAN]

i went to see The Grass Roots at a free concert in Brick, NJ... It turns out the lead singer was stuck in NY. They gave it best effort.

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[Knowledged_one]

Power Outage? not here in D.C. i played some Maddens on the PS2 then some Brute Force, and some bingers all in all a good night

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[french bread pizza]

i watched everyone on tv that didn't have energy and laughed and felt lucky to be in south jersey where everyone makes fun of us but we only lost power for a minute..

you guys were quite boring up in nyc..i wanted to see like massive looting and rioting or something..but no everyone just calmly walked around and said "this reminds me of 911 too much i don't like it"

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[Knowledged_one]

preach it Frenchie i was hoping for some looting scenes as well
or even harlem burning

damn you people and your sedation

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[fatty]

you guys were quite boring up in nyc..i wanted to see like massive looting and rioting or something..but no everyone just calmly walked around and said "this reminds me of 911 too much i don't like it"


your thinking of the wrong coast. only california would riot over a blackout. ny isn't so pathetic.

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[hyperspace]

i cooked pasta sauce and rigatoni.

[JerseyRich]

Waited for the NYers to come back to the board and bring the funny.

I had power the whole time.

But I hate to gloat.

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[bunnyluvsthem]

I turned every light and appliance on, so that when the power was back on (at about 10:45pm) I would know and everything would be on full blast, I will not be prevented from using my electricity.

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[Snoogans]

i watched everyone on tv that didn't have energy and laughed and felt lucky to be in south jersey where everyone makes fun of us but we only lost power for a minute..

we only make fun of the hicks in the 609 area cod......oh yea. your actually lucky, we have power, but still no cable up here

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[mason]

i can not, as of yet, form full thoughts and/or sentences. my legs and feet stil hurt from standing outside of the 39th street ferry dock for around 4 hours.

man, i gotta get a job in jersey.

hope everyone is safe and at home with their families.

[Snoogans]

hope everyone is safe and at home with their families

im nice and safe sittin with my phone at the desk in my office at work.
Oh, and why am i at work today, like alot of people arent. cause my boss felt like callin me and sayin come in, i wanna go down the shore.
He is lucky he pays for me to play golf with him, or id be pissed

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Silent Bob you one rude motherfucker, she like to go down on you, suck you. line up 2 other guys and make like a circus seal


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[Gwen]

Given the choice between sitting around and talking to my family like they did back in Pioneer days or sleeping, I chose sleep. I did get to make a bitchin' oregon trail joke, but alas only my brother got it. My comedy was wasted!

We couldn't even make dinner last night cause someone in my house thought having an electric stove and oven was a "super sweet" idea. Asshat!

We got powerback at 1245 am and I was forced to come back into work this morning. Feh!

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[McNabbShouldDie]

There was a lunch-in thing at a firehouse after my uncles funeral( :( ) when the blackout hit Jersey but the power didnt go out there. When my family left that we went to my aunts who didnt have power so I went in the pool and played with my 2 year old cousin.

When my family got home at like 9 we saw all the alarm clocks were blinking with the time "5:07", so im guessing my town only lost power for a lil bit.

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[GaryWyze]

[color=purple]Drove around town with a couple of friends, the city was absolutely awesome last night. Probably my favorite stop was Washington Square Park, where we spent some time hanging out with all the other freaks.

The scene was one I'll never forget. People playing guitars in the middle of the night, me and another guy starting impromptu sing-alongs. Candles everywhere, girls dancing and doing the hula-hoop. Everybody just having a kick ass time. It was like the world's funkiest block party. They should black out the city once a week.

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[Snoogans]

so I went in the pool and played with my 2 year old cousin.

you sick, sick bastard :eg:
umm, when it first hit north jersey, it didnt knock us out for 20 min. we were "brown out" for awhile, then all of a sudden boom, nothing

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Silent Bob you one rude motherfucker, she like to go down on you, suck you. line up 2 other guys and make like a circus seal


eww you fuckin faggots, i hate guys, i LOOOOVE WOMEN!

[McNabbShouldDie]

so I went in the pool and played with my 2 year old cousin.

Man, did I ever say that wrong.

umm, when it first hit north jersey, it didnt knock us out for 20 min. we were "brown out" for awhile, then all of a sudden boom, nothing

Not for my house, unless my alarm clock theory is wrong.

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[Snoogans]

Not for my house, unless my alarm clock theory is wrong.


in a brown out, its just less power, so depending on how brown, my computer went off while my alarm was still on, so who knows

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Silent Bob you one rude motherfucker, she like to go down on you, suck you. line up 2 other guys and make like a circus seal


eww you fuckin faggots, i hate guys, i LOOOOVE WOMEN!

[Doogie]

I helped to fight a fire in a power plant that was part of the chain reaction of this power outage. Being near exploding turbines...never fun!!!

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[Snoogans]

I helped to fight a fire in a power plant that was part of the chain reaction of this power outage. Being near exploding turbines...never

Doogie, your in rockland, do you have TV back yet?

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Silent Bob you one rude motherfucker, she like to go down on you, suck you. line up 2 other guys and make like a circus seal


eww you fuckin faggots, i hate guys, i LOOOOVE WOMEN!

[Doogie]

Doogie, your in rockland, do you have TV back yet?


Actually I had TV all the time as soon as power came back on at 7pm...I have the satellite dish. I always get reception. I wonder how satellite sales will change now that we have this event

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[PanterA]

i cooked pasta sauce and rigatoni.Just cause toni's black doesnt give you the right to call him that OR cook him for that matter.

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[mdr55]

Watch t.v. and turn on the lights to the envy of my neighbors who had no electricity. They busted out the small grill and barbequed food.

Later when I walked my dog I got a flashlight cuz the rest of the neighborhood was pitch black. Oh, an check out Ron Fez.net.

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[hyperspace]

i cooked pasta sauce and rigatoni.Just cause toni's black doesnt give you the right to call him that OR cook him for that matter.

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[JerseyRich]

Sicilian?

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[reeshy]

I'd tell you what I did but I started another thread about it already!! It's much better than this thread anyway!!!


BTW, Rich, were you scared when the lights went out????????

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[SatCam]

I sat around in the blaring heat outside. Then I got out the flashlights and solar powered lanterns when it got dark. I also sat outside looking at the stars. At about 10 my mom went to get my dad from queens (he was walking for hours from midtown) and I STILL sat around, this time inside. My sister got her laptop out and hooked it up to the phoneline and used an AOL demo, so I was online for a few minutes. At about 11, I played a little cards with my family, then at 12 I turned on the radio and layed in my bed. at 12:30, to my surprise, I heard my neighbor's central air start up, and I noticed my halway was lit... and sure enough... we got power. I turned on the light and the tv and watched until two, when I decided I've had enough of this heat, and I went to bed.

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[Furtherman]

Five years ago today.

[Jujubees2]

Yeah, five years ago. Today's my son's birthday and we spent the early evening looking for a place selling ice cream cakes. We lucked out as there was one down the street from the house that was looking to just the rid of them so we got one for $5. Of course, we couldn't eat it until my wife got home from Manhattan. It was a little melted.

[DolaMight]

I was just past the very edge of the blackout. I lived on the Quebec side of the river in ottawa and we're not on the Ohio/NY/Ontario grid, we had quebec hydro. I worked 5 minutes away in downtown ottawa where they also lost power.

I didn't have to go to work for a week, I got paid, and I had full power and AC at home the whole time.

I sat on my lawn drinking, listening to music with the AC unit blowing nice cold air in my face as all the sweaty ottawa refugees walked past my place going to the store to buy ice.

We chanted "Joyeux Fin du Monde!" to the refugees who were jealous of my abundant electricity.

It was the best week of my life.

[Yuppie_Scum]

I walked 15 miles from wall street to the north bronx. It took 10 hours and I had blisters not only from my very uncomfortable work shoes but also halfway to my knees because of my socks. I had $1 in my pocket and all the ATMs were useless. My cell phone died. My family was on vacation and couldn't help me. I saw looting in Washington Heights. When I finally got home I had to walk up five flights of stairs to my apartment in pitch black.

... it was a bad day.

[SatCam]

I cant remember a thing about the blackout,,,,,,,,,,,,,

good thing I made a post about exactly what I did that day

[Lady Resin]

My husband and his brother were working in NYC at the time. They were both in publishing. I was listening to O&A and watching CCN. Hubby called me from his office that was in the middle of the office. My A/C , TV and PC was off and on. I finally had the TV come back on. I told him about a shortage. They hitched hiked outside of the tunnel. A couple picked them up and drove them to Giant Stadium where bro in laws car was parked. Hubby and bro in and the lights came on.

[jonyrotn]

I worked for like 55 straight hours, mostley driving around central Harlem and I saw very misbehaving but I think I'm still living off the money I made on that blackout..

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[King Hippos Bandaid]

was off, just chilled outside with friends and drank lots of beer

we rotated cars (diddnt drive drunk) and had the AC on , thank god Gas wasn't this expensive back then

[Tenbatsuzen]

I was listening to O&A.


Unless it was on an Ipod, you most certainly were not.

[MikeyD]

I was doing a show in Fairfax, VA. with 2 guys named Ron & Fez

[Hottub]

Were you their announcer?

[Friday]

i was watching the news and having some wine... as we had power the whole time. :bye:

[ChrisTheCop]

I worked for like 55 straight hours, mostley driving around central Harlem and I saw very misbehaving but I think I'm still living off the money I made on that blackout..

<--- "2003 Blackout" fan since day one..:bye:

woo hoo!

I had just gotten home from "Sergeant School" to find the elevator out.
I thought it was just my building, and climbed the 6 flights.
I played scrabble by candlelight with my neighbor and his mom.

The next day, they sent my whole class down to patrol Bed Stuy
and of course we all got in on the Overtime.
Cool thing was, unlike the rest of my class, I was already promoted to sergeant,
so my classmates ended up being my first roster as a boss.

Oh yeah, thats also the day I found out some guy sent me white powder at my former precinct in the Bronx, hoping I'd think it was anthrax. My partner called me while I was in Bed Stuy and told me there was an envelope for me with no return address. I told him to open it for me, I still can hear the hesitation in his voice....uh...Chris...there's white powder in here....

GOOD TIMES!

[Devo37]

i was sick, so i slept through most of it.

when i found out there was a blackout, my first response was to try to turn on the tv to get the latest news. when that didn't work, i went to turn on the radio.

i wasn't thinking too clearly that day...

[Chip196]

I was stuck on Metro North trains for about an hour when it happened. When I got home Casey and I decided to drink all the beer in our fridge before it went bad.

[ralphbxny]

I was on the phone with a Friend in Detroit who said...my lights just went out and the last thing she herd before my work phone crashed was...move out of that hood and come back to NYC where the lights never go out.

I left my office in Parkchester (Bronx) and Walked to my brothers Apt in Soundview(Bronx) and spoke to people I havent seen in years because my brother lived on the 19th floor...nothing like walking 19 flights in the dark.

His lights came on about 7ish so he drove me back to Yonkers where I assumed I would get my lights back any second now. Wait for it...

Wait for it........

I waited till 6pm the next day....

Thank fully my apt in Yonkers was only 7 floors up and has a deck. I drank all the beer I had with my neighbor who added a couple.

It sure was an experiance.

[TheMojoPin]

Fuck you, Fernando, for making me think Waddles had returned.

[Yosammity]

I was sweating my ass off trying to sleep without AC. Got up several times to take a cold shower hoping that would make me feel better. Sucked! Had work the next day.

[ravn816]

Spent hours in traffic, ate a PB&J sammich because we couldn't cook. Drank the beer out of our fridge and invited a friend over to play boardgames until the power came back on at 11pm. We were able to watch the news until bed time at that point.