Northeast blackout of 2003: 10 years ago, today

[uno_da_cat]

I agree with the message you're sending, but that isn't earth's beauty
in fact, an abandoned human settlement where natural reclamation hasn't even started yet is about the opposite of earth's beauty

It was meant to show the difference of the night sky with the lights out. Not what you were getting at.

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[Tokerovin]

I remember being on the beach when this happened.

[ChexGuy331]

I kinda remember the blackout, my father and I were watching Johnny English when the power cut out.

[Reindeer]

I remember this, and almost all food and/or drinks were spoiled. It was scary. All of the subways were closed too, as well as every form of public transportation, just everything was closed. It was like a ghost-town. I remember this black out vividly.

[Nickelob Ultra]

Our lights and pollution have ruined earths true beauty.

That's space's beauty, not Earth's

^^^^^^^^^^^

lol

[Doomonkey]

I agree we should make electricity illegal so we can look at stars better.

[sir dooble]

It'd be a nuisance to live in a big city, like New York or London, since it would never ever work, but there are neighbourhood communities where they plan out and do volounteer black-outs, so that they can see the sky in their area.

It allows for some truly great amateur astronomy in areas that would otherwise never get to experience the beauty of the night-time sky.


I'm quite lucky that I live in the countryside and not far from the moors, so I can go up and view the sky at night.
The downside though is that I live in Britain, and it's Overcast about 50% of the time here, so getting a good look is very difficult.
I missed a lot of the meteor shower that happened over the last 3 nights because of cloud cover.

[Pixel]

Our lights and pollution have ruined earths true beauty.

Its not ruined though... If the lights go off you can see the stars. Youre acting like every city light permanently deletes a star.

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I lived in new jersey but my area wasn't affected. I was two but our area escaped it.

[Kalphiter²]

Massachusetts, United States

A small area of extreme western Massachusetts was affected. In Worcester the event was of sufficient magnitude to reboot some computers, while in Springfield the effect of the event was enough to cause the automatic startup of commercial and industrial backup generation facilities. Some areas were subjected to lower-than-normal voltage (as low as 100 volts AC) and brownouts for periods of up to 24 hours. The Boston area was spared from the blackout.

I was in Pittsfield, MA at a water park. Let's just say that it would not have been a good idea to stay in the water.

[Pixel]

I lived in new jersey but my area wasn't affected. I was two but our area escaped it.

NJ represent~~

I was eight and still have no recollection of this event so Im assuming I wasnt affected either.

[Måster Blåster]

I was 5 in that time, but never heard about it, until several months ago.