Great Northeast Blackout 1965

[stickboy1375]

Anyone remember this? http://blackout.gmu.edu/events/tl1965.html

 

[ultramegabob]

that was a couple years before my time

 

[stickboy1375]

that was a couple years before my time

a decade before my time...

 

[K8MHZ]

I would have been 8 years old at the time and if I remember correctly that was how old I was when I got the A2 strain of Hong Kong flu and nearly died. Since the fever I had made me hallucinate severely if there was a black out I probably would not have realized it.

Had I not been sick, I probably could have fixed it in no time if asked.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

[benaround]

I was 15 and I don't remember it to be a big deal, now the "Blizzard of 75"

is something I won't forget, people had to dig down to find the top of their

cars.

 

[LarryFine]

Anyone remember this? http://blackout.gmu.edu/events/tl1965.html

I do, and I remember the phrase "Where were you when the lights went out?"

 

[romeo]

Great Northeast Blackout 1965

Anyone remember this? http://blackout.gmu.edu/events/tl1965.html

I remember it well. I thought I caused it. I was working in a store making live connections in a ceiling light and caused a slight arc,and the lights went out,I was in the basement and found my way up to the main floor,to find that the store lights were also out, wow I thought did I trip the main? Then I looked out to see that the street lights were also out. lol

That is how I remember the Northeast Blackout.

 

[cowboyjwc]

I didn't do it, I wasn't even in town that day! Plus I was only seven, but I do remember the term "where were you when the lights went out?" they even made a movie by the same name.

 

[zog]

I didn't do it, I wasn't even in town that day! Plus I was only seven, but I do remember the term "where were you when the lights went out?" they even made a movie by the same name.

Summer of Sam was also based around the blackout

 

[DanZ]

You know, I watched a Modern Marvels episode about that. It, uh...was a couple of decades before my time. :grin: Kinda scary that all the safety gear worked just like it was designed to, and that it could easily happen again.

 

[marissa2]

What I remember most about it is that it was a week night and we were hoping that the power would be off long enough for school to be called off the next day, it wasn't.
Lou