'Subject: Blackout - A Social Case History
Date:
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:39:37 -0400
From:
rcowles@waterw.com (Rick Cowles)
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You might enjoy this link. It's about the 1965 Northeast U.S. power
outage, and it's pretty interesting. How things have changed, both
socially and technologically...
blackout.stg.brown.edu
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Rick Cowles (Public PGP key on request)
www.euy2k.com: Electric Utilities and Y2k
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www.euy2k.com/book.htm
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'All through the night the 48-story building, which houses many other companies besides Time Inc. magazines, resembled a
disaster area. Torches made from grease pencils (usually used for drawing layouts) lit the corridors until word got around
that the smoke was noxious. Five hundred people spent the night in the building. A medical center was set up in the lobby
complete with doctor, nurse, technicians and oxygen tank, but only two serious falls occurred in the descent of those stairs.
At 3:17 in the morning Ralph Morse, who had taken the first pictures of the blinded city from a 28th-floor window, now
began to take the last pictures from the same position. Slowly, during the next 1 1/2 hours, the city came alive again, a
blaze of lights here, a blaze there and, as seen on the last color spread of the story, Morse's camera caught the radiant
rebirth.
GEORGE P. HUNT, Managing Editor
LIFE, Vol. 59 No. 2 (November 19, 1965) |
