I'm electric - electric eye

I'm probably the only person on the site that experienced the blackout of 2003 so I guess I'd better throw up some kind of reaction, but I don't have a really juicy story of hardship. I wasn't trapped in an elevator or the subway.

The lights flickered in my office at about 4:10-4:30. We had switched to generators earlier anyway since the Long Island Power Authority had informed us that it was an energy critical day. So we never lost power in the office, but word travelled quickly that there was at least a statewide blackout. So we all went home.

Driving sucked the Meadowbrook Parkway was basically a parking lot so I took sidestreets home. I got home by about 6:30-7:00, not bad all things considered. Cops and Good Samaritans began directing traffic at the major intersections in pretty short order and most people were driving pretty cautiously.

My grandfather was already at home when I got there and we cooked dinner. He was sweating a lot so I made him drink lots of water. He complained that, I'd have him "pissing all night long," but after reading about all the heat related deaths inf France I wasn't going to take any chances. He's in good health, but he's also 87 years old. I lit candles as the sun went down, but only we only needed them for a couple hours. Around 9:30 the lights came back on.

My parents were hosting their annual lobster dinner at the beach for about twenty people. I think four showed up so they wasted a shitload of money.

So that's it. That's my story. Sorry it wasn't more exciting.