Author Topic: Where Were You During The Great Blackout Of 2003? (Read 2392 times)

Dan · « **on:** August 14, 2023, 02:15:55 PM »

20 years ago today!

Dan · « **Reply #1 on:** August 14, 2023, 02:16:14 PM »

https://twitter.com/Mottel/status/1691082851880497152

yelped · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2023, 02:16:31 PM »

On a camp trip in upstate NY

Abebee · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2023, 02:19:54 PM »

Day camp trip. I believe it was six flags. Just remember coming over the bridge, NJ was lit up and Brooklyn was pitch black

Euclid · « **Reply #4 on:** August 14, 2023, 02:19:55 PM »

In camp in upstate NY. Brutal

yungermanchik · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2023, 02:42:07 PM »

It was my first year in sleep-away camp. They really made the best of it with a bonfire etc.

yfr bachur · « **Reply #6 on:** August 14, 2023, 03:30:04 PM »

New Haven CT.
Only heard abour it from my parents ,we had power the whole time

dovy2 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 14, 2023, 03:36:36 PM »

With camp at Canada's wonderland amusement Park. Was is an arcade room when it suddenly became dark and quiet. Some kids were stuck on rides. I remember waiting on line to get bracelets to come back another day.

avromie7 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 14, 2023, 03:49:07 PM »

Dan · « **Reply #9 on:** August 14, 2023, 03:54:19 PM »

@mom1000 was home with 18 month old Gavriel (who just moved to Columbia Law School this week) with no power or water.

My father and the older 5 brothers were touring his old stomping grounds in Oregon and Washington.

I remember watching the news as they talked about how PDX was affected...flights to CLE and NYC were being cancelled.

Pictures taken on Olympus Camedia C-50:

And saved on an XD card:

Crater Lake

Me, @YankyDoodle and @jj1000

Salt Creek Falls:

Mt. Rainier National Park

Sea Lion Caves

Astoria Column

Multnomah Falls

All the Shabbos food needed for a guys trip:

aygart · « **Reply #10 on:** August 14, 2023, 04:06:59 PM »

On I-81 on the way to Toronto for my BIL bar-mitzva that shabbos.

Yehuda57 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 14, 2023, 04:08:10 PM »

What is this blackout you speak of? I was in camp in the summer of 2003, and I'm pretty sure nothing at all happened to anyone anywhere outside of camp.

Redbull3 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 14, 2023, 04:10:08 PM »

Summer going into 12th grade. I remember watching Ace Ventura (for the upteenth time that summer) on my sisters fully charged laptop with slurpees

tov hashem · « **Reply #13 on:** August 14, 2023, 05:39:33 PM »

https://www.yiddish24.com/searchresult/%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%97%D7%A7%20%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%A8

might be interesting for some of a orthodox engineer involved, move to 4:45

aygart · « **Reply #14 on:** August 14, 2023, 05:47:48 PM »

Quote from: aygart on August 14, 2023, 04:06:59 PM

On I-81 on the way to Toronto for my BIL bar-mitzva that shabbos.

The most interesting part about this is how an extremely wealthy Toronto family that was making shabbos sheva brachos that week took the leftovers from the kiddush to serve at shalosh seudos.

mevinyavin · « **Reply #15 on:** August 15, 2023, 01:44:42 AM »

What, was I the only one in Brooklyn?

It made quite an impression on me. I was in Chaim Day Camp when the power went. They had fun in the dark for a while but eventually sent everyone home. Busing without traffic lights was NOT fun. The house was dark and my parents came home early from work (took my father extra time to get home). We ate fridge food because it would go bad otherwise. My father is a but of an apocalypse prep type, so we had endless supplies of flashlights and cases of water sitting in a closet. The hardest part was no fans (we weren't such AC users). I remember going to sleep without power - my parents refused to promise that it would be back in the morning, but I think I remember that it was when we woke up.

mevinyavin · « **Reply #16 on:** August 15, 2023, 01:50:02 AM »

Quote from: Dan on August 14, 2023, 03:54:19 PM

My father and the older 5 brothers were touring his old stomping grounds in Oregon and Washington.
Pictures taken on Olympus Camedia C-50:

Wow! No electricity where you were, either?

yfr bachur · « **Reply #17 on:** August 15, 2023, 03:46:03 AM »

Quote from: mevinyavin on August 15, 2023, 01:44:42 AM

What, was I the only one in Brooklyn?
It made quite an impression on me. I was in Chaim Day Camp when the power went. They had fun in the dark for a while but eventually sent everyone home. Busing without traffic lights was NOT fun. The house was dark and my parents came home early from work (took my father extra time to get home). We ate fridge food because it would go bad otherwise. My father is a but of an apocalypse prep type, so we had endless supplies of flashlights and cases of water sitting in a closet. The hardest part was no fans (we weren't such AC users). I remember going to sleep without power - my parents refused to promise that it would be back in the morning, but I think I remember that it was when we woke up.

Brooklyn exists during the summer???

(aside for tisha bav, of course

)

mevinyavin · « **Reply #18 on:** August 15, 2023, 05:49:22 AM »

Quote from: yfr bachur on August 15, 2023, 03:46:03 AM

(aside for tisha bav, of course )

Inside jokes are allowed on this forum?
Explained: For several years (at least 6?), @yfr bachur and I spent eight hours in close proximity only on Tisha B'Av (in Brooklyn, kamuvan), and otherwise never seeing each other.

YitzyS · « **Reply #19 on:** August 15, 2023, 07:48:13 AM »

Was in camp. From when it got dark until bedtime, they had everyone in the shul, saying stories and davening maariv. They had cars parked by the doorways with the headlights shining into the shul for lighting. Eventually, they set up cars along the entire stretch from the shul to the bunkhouses and had everyone walk to their rooms to sleep, with the cars staying around with the motors running so that there can be at least minimal lighting in the bunkhouses.