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From: lute@abnjh.UUCP (J. Collymore)
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Subject: Where were you when the lights went out? (11/9/65, 5:28 p.m.)
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 10:06:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 10:06:01 1984
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Well, as of this posting, it is 19 years to the day that the Northeast United
States experienced the greatest, accidental, blackout in history.  It seems
hard to believe that millions of us were plunged into blackness at the same
time over thousands of sqaure miles.  Imagine what it must have been like
if you were in a jet preparing for landing at a major airport, and suddenly
as far as you could see everything went black!?

Well, such an event would probably leave lasting impressions in most of our
minds, (whether we were on an airplane or not).  So I was wondering if some
of you would like to post what you were doing when the lights went out.
This assumes that whatever you were doing was not TOO embarassing!

As for me, I was 12 years old, sitting at the kitchen table doing what I hated
most... MATH HOMEWORK.  Overall, the blackout provided the best excuse (to this
day) why I couldn't get my work done.  At that point in my life, I thought it
was the "neatest" thing ever, but what do you want from a 7th grader?!

So how about the rest of you?  Do you remember what you were doing the night
all the lights went out?


					Jim Collymore