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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:30
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Hey gang!
Wooo, is it a FUN day here in NYC!
At about 4:15 PM the lights in my office in Midtown started to flicker, and then the computers all started to make some hideous grinding noises. Seconds later, out go the lights, and freakier still, the phones cut out.
Oh, the mayhem that ensued as an office full of people had their computers blip off, losing precious, precious data! The screams of the tormented were loud, I tell you.
Anyway, since cellular reception was nil (a doubly upsetting thing), we basically sat around listening to a barely-calm security guard over the loud speaker yelling at as to "REMAIN CALM! DO NOT PANIC!" He would then mumble curse words to someone while the speaker was still on...
The power came back up briefly for a few minutes, and later on I realized this must have been backup generators to get people out of stuck elevators. I was able to get through on the phone to my folks, but it cut out in mid conversation again. I could just hear my mom going nuts when that happened.
Shortly before 5 PM the building announced that the generator for emergency lights was only good for an hour, so we had to leave. Great. So down the emergency stairs we went. The reminiscence to those images of the WTC stairwells wasn't lost on us, nosirree.
Outside, thousands milled about outside Penn Station, and cars jammed everything, bumper to bumper. A friend I work with who lives near me walked home with me. I didn't see a single cop anywhere, not even a traffic cop. We walked downtown down the middle of Broadway along with hundreds of others. On 23rd street, we witnessed city workers helping people out of an escape hatch from the subway, people who had been stuck in those horrible, hot cars.
I found my roommate outside our apartment, she was terrified. I'm now at my friend's place, who has a laptop and dial-up modem that is working. We have some beer and water. Looks like a fun night ahead...
Cheers!
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VetLegion
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Terrible news. What do you think this will result in?
Also, why are they sending 40 000 policemen to the New York City? Were there some riots the last time this happened?
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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:30
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Well, the power's back in my neighborhood, finally. Came on about 1/2 hour ago. That made over 27 hours without it.
It actually came back up briefly at 1 PM, but there was a fire at the 14th street power station and it got shut off almost right away.
I spent last night with my roommate Caroline at a friend's place nearby. We managed to watch half of a DVD on the laptop before the battery cut out. How dumb was that? We had figured the power would be back any minute...
When we realized it was going to be a while, Caroline and I trekked back to our insanely dark apartment. A rather large moth had found his way into it, and in the candle light, it fluttering around freaked the hell out of Caroline. Killing it in the near-dark wasn't easy, but hey...a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!
After that we decided to go to Union Square and hang out for a bit with the hippies. Kinda fun, actually. Very communal.
Today, we went up to the UWS, which had power back by 4 AM, and hung out at a bar where Dan, my other roommate and Caroline's bf, works. He hooked us up with free food and beer. Ain't that sweet?
So, now to clean out the refrigerator... 
This is the last thing NYC needed, considering our already disasterous budget woes. The cost of this fiasco is not something we need to bear.
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15-08-2003 03:15
good to hear you are doing alright... better drink those beers before they get warm!
@ reds
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