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From: cwh@drutx.UUCP (Hoffmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: The Great Blackout
Message-ID: <1479@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 11:11:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 11:11:54 1984
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It seems to me that the blackout *was* on a Tuesday.

I was a sophomore attending Xavier High School (16th Street anybody?)
and I was lucky enough to have left school *that* day at 3 on the button.
The trick was to get on a southbound D or F from 16th St. and 6th Ave,
and make it to West 4th St. in time to catch the uptown A.

If the A "clicked" on that run (and didn't get screwed up around
either 7th Ave. or around the Museum of Natural History) I could make
it to 178th St. in 45 minutes, in time to catch the Red & Tan 20 to
Pearl River - whew!

I had just gotten home and was using the toaster when all heck broke
loose - my mother accused me of knocking out the circuit breaker in our
house.  Later on, of course, it became evident that I was responsible for
knocking out the Northeast corridor.............as mothers do, she later
accused me of that too!

But it *can't*, it just can't be *19 years ago*.....
Caesar's bust is on the shelf, and I don't feel so well myself.

From the carefully crafted Gothic interior of WB2YHE - Carl drutx!cwh