News on the Blackout of 2003 - from NBC - part 1 of 5!!

From Aug. 14, 2003, here is news about the incredible, widespread, and historic blackout that affected parts of the Northeastern US. and southern Canada. The blackout affected 45 million Americans and 10 million Canadians!! I had a friend in Florida tape the news for a couple of days, since, having no power, I couldn't....so here it is!! This is part 1 of 5, with news from NBC and Brian Williams.
I distinctly remember where I was when the lights went out at about 4:15 PM that day...sitting with my wife in a realty office, going over paperwork trying to buy a house...the one we bought that Fall, and that we're still in!! It took us 2 hours to get home that day, without any traffic lights...nomally a 20-minute drive!

[@mariodesanta9742]

I remember people thought this was another terrorist attack.

[@MalekMasoud]

I think the real reason for the blackout may have been due to a type of software failure and/or computer error that wound up causing a domino effect.

[@stefanobonetti1]

Malek Masoud Actually, all of this happened because a tree fell on a High Voltage cable in Akron, Ohio. Now that's what you call Butterfly Effect!

[@Felamine]

To be honest that was what I was thinking. At first I thought it just a normal blackout, but when I got my radio and turned on the news they were saying the blackout was all the way to New York and Canada. I initially thought terrorism because there's no way a blackout this big could happen on its own, but apparently it did.

[@trl4563]

MarioDeSanta97 they thought that because of the timing of it was so close to Sept 11 2001,,during bush presidency while we was at war..so you never know...

[@mrmanlet7385]

@@stefanobonetti1 The biggest thing was that the grid monitoring system at FirstEnergy in Ohio failed, and when the trees fell on the lines, tripping them, they couldn't see the lines tripping until over a minute after.

[@squiggleworks9]

This is my first time watching coverage of the blackout, so this is fascinating to me. I was one of those people stuck on the train in a darkened tunnel. There was an eerie silence and then the sound from aboveground of police sirens. Our conductor told us he had no idea what was going on so that added to the sense of unease, and of course our first thought was that it was another attack. Everyone kept calm though until MTA workers with flashlights got us off the train and guided us out of a pitch black subway station

[@gabrielalmonte4497]

I met my wife during the black out, we now have 5 kids

[@jacobkf7129]

Gabriel X wow god bless

[@gfl1312]

That’s awesome! God bless y’all, man!

[@eddyurbino3914]

Damn, no power for two days only and 5 kids🤣🤣🤣

[@D.JustinCalderon.1]

Gabriel X I guess the lights never turned backed on,huh?

[@ganjaman407]

I met my girlfriend during a blackout too. Well, it was a different kind of blackout (alcohol was involved) but it was still a blackout 🤣

[@RyanTheIncredible882]

'I know what caused this blackout! I was there when the man flipped the power switch!' -Brian Williams

[@nityking1]

bush did it

[@pm41224]

Turned out to be an old grid and overpowered surges.

[@davidjames666]

Harrison Fletcher an overloaded, over heated transmitting line which hit an overgrown tree that firstenergy corp failed to cut to save money so they can continue to expand their reach as an energy provider. Ooh, add to an undertrained operations engineer who turned off the alarm before he left the office.

[@Isatino]

Man, this was a new childhood experience back then. I remember it being like Silent Hill going up the stairs to my apartment with my dad. It was at night and all we had was a single flashlight.

[@JustTooAmazing]

I was eight at the time walking home from the store in New York I saw a lot of people outside I thought we were having a block party lol.

[@richiebee1984]

I was 19 back then In Brooklyn.i was in a c town supermarket with my mom and sister when the lights started to flicker and then off. We walked the 4 blocks home in that fucking heat and everybody on our block was outside we bought about 8 big candles so we can have light and cook (with gas burners) that was the hottest night ever could not sleep thank god the power came back on at 2:15 pm the next day

[@GamingPalooza]

i was in CT when the blackout happened and all I remember was being in my living room, watching a 19" tube tv... and the fan was on because it was hot as hell and all of a sudden the fan started spinning faster... and faster... and then the power went out. Eventually it came back on much sooner than most places, which we were lucky for.

[@richiebee1984]

How much sooner? I was in Brooklyn,my and the power came back on at 2:15 PM THE next day

[@NostalgiCrazy]

@Super Cool Captain Awesome Death Wish Man 2 awsome Lol. Wait you replied to me in another vid but I forgot which...

[@Axel-uw5py]

I was in CT and it lasted 3 days for us lol

[@samuelstark2057]

16 years ago today! I remember this day. I would love to hear your stories 😊

[@daniellowell2157]

I remember this one well. I was eight years old at the time, and I was going into the third grade. My friends and I were lucky... much of southeastern Connecticut never lost power - the major generating stations in that part of the state were able to "disconnect" from the grid. For those that are curious, this is considered a prime example of a _cascading failure_.

[@jasonpalacios2705]

When the blackout happened,I was scared because dad told me about the NYC 1977 blackout on how they looted stores and I thought it was going to happen in NYC but thank goodness nothing happened.

[@DubBeats]

It was some break in but not a lot like the 1977 one only they had in the 2003 some guy broke in a store in fell the roof in he die. But 1977 was a lot looting in riot in arson...

[@KufLMAO]

Oh my god stores getting looted how scary 😱 Seriously how would that endanger you

[@jasonpalacios2705]

@@KufLMAO Have you seen any lootings in the 2003 blackout?

[@KufLMAO]

@@jasonpalacios2705 No, I haven’t. I’m sick of people pretending that looters are an equivalent threat level to roving gangs actually looking for violence.

[@jasonpalacios2705]

@@KufLMAO When did I ever made that comparison?

[@alexcentury2166]

I was eight years old, and in my hometown in southeastern Michigan, our cable went out, but we didn't lose power. I have no idea why I remember that.

[@Unknown-eo2nf]

we lost power down by dundee

[@Anglynn74]

I lived in Woodbridge, NJ when this happened, I was on the cordless phone talking to my mom when I heard a weird zapping sound in the earpiece and my phone went dead and my computer shut off. The way it sounded in the phone was horrible, I literally HEARD this blackout through the phone & what a horrendous noise it made, never heard anything like it. I think our power came back on a few hrs later.

[@airdriver]

Thanks for posting. I was in the blackout and never saw any of this because I had no power.

[@eny4life718]

I was 13 in summer camp when this happened.. we were just about to go on a trip and had to take the 3 train.. then we got word the power went out in NYC, and the trip was canceled . I wudda been hella tight stuck on the subway smfh

[@jceess]

Funny how these things work. The power goes out, and suddenly, people have to rely on their own two feet to get around. Without all the distractions, people talk to others they see but don't know. I bet a lot of friendships were made during this blackout.

[@airdriver]

WOW! Thanks for posting this. I missed seeing the news about the Blackout because we didn't have any power, LOL.

[@maryhlad7501]

I was working at St. Joseph’s Hospital here in Syracuse, New York when this blackout happened. It was my day off from work, and fortunately for my mom and I, we retained the electricity to the bungalow we were living in at the time.

[@ccastro02]

I was 15 yo working at my summer job in Bay Shore, NY when all of a sudden the lights when out. Rode my bike to my friends house. We than met up with some of our other friends and started playing basketball till like 9pm. The blackout was really fun. Only down side was that it was extremely hot that day!!!

[@XxNewmilleniumxX]

Remember this day, I was stuck in Manhattan luckily I was in Chinatown the bridges to get back to brooklyn was not far at all. I walked all the way to the williamsburgh bridge to get back to Brooklyn. Took me about a hour and a half to get over that bridge in that weather and it was really crowded. It was about 3pm. I had to hurry and make my way back home before night because it was very bad in my neighborhood. Made it home around 6ish. Corner stores was giving out sandwhiches for like2 bucks. Ice creeams were free sodas were like 50 cents. I racked up on some food and went home to find out my family that came all the way from long island city was over which was about 7 of them. We had only 2 rooms and it was hot as hell. Boy what a night in brooklyn, shootings robberys, a stabbing, etc. It was hectic me and my cousin stood on our stoop at night around 11 and it was so crowded out side nothing but gang members lurking back and forth. Boy that was a crazy day!

[@richiebee1984]

Kind of the same in my Brooklyn neighborhood Brownsville

[@taxitalknyc7600]

I was ONCE AGAIN in the safety of Pops house out by LGA in Queens... He was an Old School Korean army vet... - and still had the family 12-gauger ready to roll... ;)

[@oliversolomon1411]

it was a day after my 12th birthday. I had just bought Madden 2004 and was excited to play it. As soon as i turned on my TV it shut off. My neighbor, if you want to call her that, knocked on our door to ask us if "our lights were working". It was probably the only time she came across the street to speak to us-until this day she hasn't uttered a word.

[@MrDavidswayze]

I remember this as well, it happened on a Friday night luckily I was home at the time so I spent my weekend listening to my DX-440 radio listening to the news

[@capsman09]

Dua Lipa Electricity sent me here.

[@tyrese3745]

I was at Strider Records in the West Village section of NYC when the power went out. I had to take the NY Waterway ferry to Hoboken, then a diesel-powered NJT Morristown Line train (because electric power wasn't functioning at Hoboken Terminal) to Brick Church (East Orange, NJ), and finally had to walk back home to 28 Bedford Street. Took a very long time, too.

[@tedperry6466]

I was working at a restaurant in Newark Airport when we lost power. Since everything was computerized, we had to shut down. Fortunately we had alot of ice, so we were able to give people who were stuck in the long security lines with ice cold water.

[@BlueEnvoy4413]

It was my 40th birthday, I remember coming home from work after working a 6am-2.30 pm shift. I was watching "Millionaire" when at 4.12 pm the power went out. I'm glad I had a radio and plenty of batteries.

[@markbaum7379]

I made it home from lower Manhattan around 2:30 PM = Lucked out not getting stuck on the Subway.

[@ibeleaf]

i remember i was 15 or 16 and i just rode my bike to the store and bought a new xbox game and literally when i got home and put the disc in the tray the power went out. thought i caused it lol

[@ericwong7495]

I remember where I was that day too. I was just heading back home across the street from brighten beach where I was with my mom n brother for two hours it happened 10 minutes before we headed back. We were crossing the street n we notice the traffic light wasn’t working. We eventually made our way back to the building where one of the porters had said there had just been a blackout. Mom is like no way up until when the guy the pointed towards some electrical equipment nearby n they were all offline. So we looked down at our cellphones n they were all suddenly dead also. Couldn’t even make calls receive calls at all. No even texts could be sent. We then started hearing it was citywide. A few other states up n down the east coast n even parts of Canada. We go upstairs to our unit. The TV, internet electricity out. That’s when we realized this was a whole lot worse then what we initially thought. We thought we were getting hit with another terrorist attack at that point with the fresh events that occurred with 9/11 just less than two years before n the officials couldn’t even figure out where it first started. We couldn’t cook so we ordered pizza. I had to run two blocks away to pick it up n the workers there were working still in the dark obviously with back up generators I assume. There was a line with some ppl being impatient or not feeling having to wait knowing what was going on. My mom’s husband who was the super of two buildings including where I lived at the time. Unfortunately had his hands full with trying to rescue a number of ppl stuck in the elevators of both the buildings once the blackout occurred he was at it for a while. He had most of the porters stay for the night since they really weren’t able to drive back home n extra manpower was now needed to deal with the blackout at hand. The security guard was back n fourth over the radio walking around to see the super or the workers were having problems throughout the buiding. I tell u it wasn’t fun for the ppl who had to work through that shit especially the public safety agencies or my mom’s husband who had rescue ppl that were stuck underground or in elevators. For me on the other hand I enjoyed it due to the fact once I made it back in one piece later on from the pizzeria with nobody trying to mug me for my pizza pie. We were out on the terrace listening to the radio only able to keep up to date info on what was going on around the city n the country with this blackout. There was nothing else to do so I just stood on the terrace for the rest of the day into late in the evening listening to the nonstop coverage of the blackout n looking on into the pitch black sky cool but frightening a little bit too cause u didn’t know if there would rioting or looting going on where the national guard would be needed in an already dire situation. The only thing I could c was a few ppl below on the ground who were still out or wandering around with flashlights shining in the air. It was cool went to sleep really late in the hot room unable to use the AC for the night with the outage.

[@TheChadc94]

We live in Ann arbor, and we had a lot of fun during the blackout. I had a table and brought out Uno and the portable radio and just listened to WWJ. The next day we went to my aunt's house in Canton and she had power. It was fun despite no TV.

[@Tyroneblocker]

i was playing the gamecube when the power went out

[@alfonsogreen2722]

i remember when i was at my god mother's house n i was tryin 2 cut on the fan n it wasn't workin then i found out all the power went off. There was no electricity what so ever

[@maxpeck4154]

I lived and worked just outside Detroit back then. It was less than 10 miles between work and home and I drove home around dusk. It took about 2 hours with all the traffic lights out. Was an eerie, surreal experience. Funny, in the first 15 minutes or so of the blackout we all thought the company I worked for, which had begun bankruptcy proceedings, hadn't paid the electric bill.

[@mschwes5376]

Same here. Lived in Warren and worked in Sterling Heights. Took about an hour to get home. Remember plugging in an old corded phone and called some friends out of the area to get news on what was going on.

[@maxpeck4154]

@@mschwes5376 My fiancé's family lived in Grand Blanc and they had power so we corralled the cats and spent a couple of days with them until our power came back on. We were also able to put gas in the cars - none of the gas stations by us had power

[@kalelc1996]

I remember being 6 1/2 living in Manhattan, I was downtown with my mom & aunt shopping when the lights went out & we were told to disperse. I remember it took us 6 hours to walk all the way back to the Upper West side

[@yourlocallad4647]

How many miles was the walk?

[@altfactor]

NBC's studios in the RCA/GE Building in Rockefeller Center got emergency power generators after the big 1977 blackout which knocked the network off the air. In 1965, the blackout occurred before the nightly news; David Brinkley anchored in D.C. (which had power); Chet Huntley did one spot only because an NBC mobile unit with a generator parked outside their building that provided power to one camera and audio board. Huntley anchored by illumination provided by candles and flashlights.

[@MrTristen131]

I was 6 when this occured, We had plenty of candles & flashlights, we stayed in our building with the door locked witch the exception of going down once. I remember when the power did finally come back on in the Bronx all you heard below and in the terraces was clapping cheers and joyful screams. I will never forget this forget this what an experience, Thank god with todays technology we will have communication.

[@SereniaSaissa]

I was in Toronto and it had been a very hot muggy day. My baby son was dehydrated and we had just taken him to the hosiptal. I was still in the waiting room of the childrens hospital just after 4pm when the power went out. The hospital had generators so we spent the night at the hospital while my son was being given fluids through an IV. The power in Toronto came back on the next morning so around 9 AM we left the hospital and walked home through very empty streets. As for food - I purchased food from the vendors outside - they did a rip roaring trade that day. Shops selling icecream gave away icecream cones for free since it was starting to melt with no refirdgeration.

[@xavierjones4574]

NExt one will make this one look like a cakewalk

[@eduardososa843]

August 14th, 2023 will be 20 years since the blackout.

[@danny060902]

Thanks Raymond Kenney!

[@davisalexander1484]

Fucking Ray

[@JisINSANE3]

I was in florida and man it was bad, I remember the light flickered for a split second and then everything was normal again with me sitting the the a/c and watching tv. I later found out the flickering light was due to the a/c coming on.

[@theenforcer1977]

thanks for this upload.

[@Whitneypyant]

Shit man I remember this. I was just about enter my final year in high school when it happened. I was in the kitchen unloading the dish washer when the power out.

[@kernals12]

it's amazing how fast everything came back online, by that night most of the people affected had power back and all power was restored after just 3 days, that compares to one week after the October snow storm

[@apl175]

I had crossed over the land border from upstate NY to Ontario for a work trip just an hour before the blackout. Fortunately business took me to Montreal, QC - which turned out to be mostly immune from the blackout.

[@hardenmatt82]

Were you there Brian Williams?

[@taxitalknyc7600]

I wonder if he had that situation when he was flying choppers in 'Nam ??

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

This was 12 years ago today and I still remember what happened on that afternoon. I was watching Pokemon like I did every afternoon (on WBNX TV in Akron) when the TV screen went snowy. Flipping through the channels I saw only 17, 23, and 67 were still on and I thought that at least Cleveland had lost power since those three were the only channels in the area not broadcasting in Akron. About a half hour later channels like 3 5 and 8 were back on and national news had interrupted regular programming and said that much of the Northeast US and Southeast Canada had lost power! I live in the southern half of Akron Ohio and our house never lost power.

[@omgpop34lastname43]

I live in Cleveland. @MarkJWeather

[@DannyGoldingTV]

I was 6 and was visiting New York with my mom. We went up the Empire State Building an hour earlier if we were up there when it started we would have had to walk all the way down. I remember we were sitting in the lobby of the City Court building when it happened and that night we had to walk all the way back to my aunt and uncle's apartment on Central Park West.

[@Stablemable2]

the longest hike in my life

[@edwardkoepke7543]

BLACKOUT OF 1977 WAS WORSE 3000 ARRESTED BUSIENSS LOOTED , FIRES ALL OVER THE PLACE

[@DubBeats]

I watch the 1977 blackout that was sad people die because of the looting in riots...

[@carltonking416]

I live in Toronto, Canada--population 5 million people. There was no power in Toronto. I was just about to press the SEND button at 4:12 PM when the computer screen went black. The first thing I thought was how big this power outage was. I walked out of the building and the guy sitting on the porch of his house listening to his portable radio said that the power was out in NYC. I love watching the news and I couldn't. I was part of this story. My family in western Canada were all watching the news.

[@kingofkingsbc]

dam nearly ten years ago and i still have to hear bloombergs voice

[@finessekid2339]

How are they suppose to watch t.v and its a blackout

[@johnking5174]

The NBC Nightly News was and is a national news program, not just for New York, but for the whole of the US.

[@floydjohnson7888]

@@johnking5174 You've reminded me that I was in a suburban Philadelphia shopping mall when I saw images of New York without power. (The Independent System Operator for most of Pennsylvania was able to hit the switch in time to dodge the onrushing failure.)

[@johnking5174]

@@floydjohnson7888 In Los Angeles we looked on in sympathy but also a little bit smug.

[@Crashj7f67h]

I remember this. I was seven back then when this this happened. When I was outside this man had a small dog (it was probably a chiwawa).. He had it on a leash and it was on the edge of the porch. The dog accidentally fell off of the porch and was hung. That's what I heard. After that the guy yelled really loud, then after that the power went off. I actually thought his yelling made the power go off. I was seven so yeah. I ate hot dogs and drinked Ohana Ice Tea that night. I don't know about the other places, but it was (I think) 88°F in Detroit where I live.

[@TomDeVito]

I remember this. Wow 10 years it will be next month, I remember i was playing my ps1 when the lights went out. I didn't know what was going on lol

[@TheChadc94]

I live near Detroit and was driving home from school. I noticed the traffic lights were out and asked my dad what was going on. We had no idea until we got home that the power was out. Amazing study in human behavior.

[@MixZTitaniumDubstep]

7 mile and Keaton

[@eewq808]

"Encompassed 6 states in Canada."

[@blackcitroenlove]

I was living in the Greater New Haven, CT area at the time...because we were on a different grid, we weren't affected. The same went for areas that had smaller, independent power services (here in CT for example, Wallingford has its own generation capabilities.) Anyone else have the same experience?

[@MultiBillycarter]

I remember when this happened. I was 9 years old and luckily I was at home playing video games. Its also a good thing I live in upstate New York. I never realized how bad it was in NYC!

[@wnychevy09]

I remember that I had just got out of work , it was VERY warm that day- the power was off 14 hours in Buffalo, NY and Western New York

[@rentslave]

This was the first of NYC's blackout to affect NJ as well,though we had a 7 hour blackout on our own in 1967.

[@alfred76445]

I remember. Back then I was like 7. So I lived with my grandmother by that time. I was down stairs watching Jerry Springer. In all of a sudden the TV cut off and I thought the reason why cut off because it was old so after that it wouldn't cut back on so I just went outside lol

[@shari04]

can't believe it's been 13 years since this happened! time flies! i was in michigan and i remember this like it was yesterday

[@j_m_b_1914]

I can't believe I'm replying to a comment that is 8 years old commenting on an event being 13 years older. COME ON TIME! SLOW DOWN!

[@oscarbravo353]

Now 20 YEARS ago !!

[@chadshere]

I was working in manhattan, chelsea area and had to walk home to the bronx. Five hours later i got home. Crazy

[@nocchie24]

Being 5 the blackout was bad ass I played all day

[@Holly220U]

Goodness I was 16 and remember watching this live.

[@christopheragurs3359]

I was 9 at the time when this happened me and my family was checking out this apartment in Brooklyn that afternoon we but we still lived in the Bronx that was the longest walk back

[@gabrielalmonte4497]

Christopher Agurs from BK to the Bronx! Damm bro

[@Vxllain]

Damn man! Brooklyn to The Bronx!

[@jaybrick8973]

I was on vacation when this happened thank God

[@MrTopsoil911]

I was in the shower , and shampoo on my head, lol

[@rentslave]

I thought that Williams was going to tell us that he was in the Ohio substation when it failed.

[@frisbeeable]

On a trip to Syracuse away from our home in Florida!! Very ironic and memorable.

[@6100GG]

LOL...I was off that day and using it as a training bike ride - in my own zone until I was ready to cross the street and saw no lights. Didn't realize at first since it was still daylight. I learn... keep ample tea candles on hand.

[@Lol-ik8xm]

I was born 5 years after this but it's very interesting and I think that in the future this will be taught in schools.

[@TheDwreck1995]

remember this like yesterday used to live in pontiac michigan we drove all the way up to grand rapids so we could have power

[@islandxtreme26]

Was working senior housing show at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. The show ended for the day & I used service elevator to bring things out to my car. Sometime between when I left the building & went back in, the power went out. Went back inside to take the elevator back down & found it was shut down. Thought it was simply shut down for the day so I headed for the main stairs but instead found 20 seniors who couldn't get out since escalators & elevators were down. 30 min drive home took 4 hours.

[@stephaniehachey4467]

I remember when this happened I was at the fair in my hometown in Ontario Canada.

[@reallyjustrandom1230]

OBviously not the case as far as lines simply overheating. It was a result of tripping circuits that sent more power on the lines which then caused them to heat up sag and trip more breakers.

[@PGO_Gaming]

I was 17 when this happened. We lost power at about 4pm, and didn't get it back until 6am the next morning.

[@4oreComments]

Look at that cell phone. 5:28

[@ThomasM936]

I had one of those

[@kdxtreme7479]

Seth Freakin' Rollins your userna.e is awesome

[@colourfulbees]

4oreComments Those times where 2003 not 2007 or 2010

[@princekelvin6476]

Lmaooo 😂😂😂

[@Insomniac_03]

That cell phone was a Motorola Startac lol I had one

[@tobiojo5806]

I remember watching the news coverage of the blackout.

[@altfactor]

Up here in Boston, I didn't lose power. I was at a local beach and it wasn't 'til I returned to my then-girlfriend's house that I found out that there was such a huge blackout.

[@elderlyjr]

I was on my way to see the movie S.W.A.T. Walked into the mall, saw all the lights off, and walked out. I remember people thinking it was some type of terrorist act.

[@JeremyMcCracken]

Cascading failure due to lines hitting trees; it began with the Eastlake power plant in northeast Ohio going offline, and as the grid moved power from other areas, it caused more and more lines to fail. Wikipedia "Northeast Blackout of 2003" for specifics.

[@old4mat]

I was at work in the stockroom, and the next thing I remember, the lights went dim, then brightened, then out. We all gathered to listen on a battery operated radio to see what was wrong, and that was how we got the details about what was going on.

[@CFSasuke]

This was so long ago, I was at the library at the time, I just thought their power went out then I go outside and see everything was off no traffic lights and at night it was so fightening it was pitch black.

[@1976chrisc]

and it was friggin hot! Thank God Hoboken had juice when I got home at 3 am

[@altfactor]

I was staying at my then-girlfriend's place outside of Boston, and we didn't lose power.

[@Pinkfloydisme63]

I understand what you want to mean ! I'm a french student and I live the biggest blackout of the auvergne history ( auvergne is a region of france ) ! That was amazing ... Just giant ... Normally the Place de Jaude - central plaza of Clermont-Ferrand - is totally empty , but for 4 days , it was so nice ! Everyone walked down the streets and met the other on the Place de Jaude ! It was too hot in our appartment , so we get down and we slept with all the others on the plaza which was black ! =D =D

[@transpire23]

I remember that like yesterday. I was in Detroit and I couldn't even see my hands in front of me that night. We had to flash flashlights to see our neighbors. Lol.

[@OhLookItsJonBoy]

Was planning on staying in NYC that day. Left early. Made it as far as Albany when the power went out.

[@dashriprock3468]

I understand this was all started by a malfunctioning ice machine in BL's Tavern in Schenectady, NY.

[@salesforcedean3590]

Superstorm Sandy was a lot worse for me in terms of blackouts- during the 2003 blackout, I was without power for 8 hours but during Sandy I was without electricity for 5 DAYS!!

[@ross4329]

holy shit tomorrow 9 years ago damn time flies i was going into 10th grade im 24 and finishing up my mba god im old!!!!

[@starvetodeath123]

I was watching Pokemon on the afternoon cartoons on TV when the television suddenly shut off. I was so pissed, I thought my house's electrical panel shut itself off until I heard my neighbors say they lost power too.

[@kdxtreme7479]

I remember being in brookdale hospital because my mom thought I had the mumps but turned out to be mosquito bites that were scratched. I was only 5 watching cyberchase on channel 13 when the power went out. I had my Gameboy Advance but was low in battery. My mom shopped for flash lights and I told her to get more batteries and used them for my gameboy and got in trouble lol

[@inetfraud]

Most people who drink too much have blackouts too. The only difference is, they don't remember what the hell happened. lmao.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I remember back in 2003, I lived in Kingston when it happened during the blackout. It happened after coming home from a trip from Lake George and had ice cream and then, the blackout happened. The power had restored after 9:00 PM.

[@edwardkoepke7543]

Musicradio77 Television Network BLACKOUT '77 WAS WORSE

[@BlakeChilders]

+Edward Koepke BLACKOUT OF NOT A FUCK GIVEN WAS WORSE.

[@Skybloxstormplayz]

I never forget it

[@Whitneypyant]

I remember that. I live in detroit well 30 minutes outside the city but my power went out around 4pm. I unloading the dishwasher and I notice that lights were out. I kid you not I thought it was y2k three years. The first night was interesting because my brother's friends were over and had flashlights and lanterns and we play monoplay. then I got miserable because it hot and nothing to do so my mom sent to my uncle right when the power came back on.

[@mickih35]

I was at work and was already working with huge ovens baking glass and was Happy it happen cause I lived up the street and was able to go home...hell it was hott