East Coast Blackout

[thistlechaser]

I'd be a lot happier if I could contact any of my family over there. (All of my family lives in either NY or Maine, the NY bunch being my closest family and also they're nearly in NYC itself.) I know everyone's probably fine and dandy except a little annoyed at not being able to cook dinner, but being able to touch base with them would be nice.

And I guess it shows my trust in officials, but the first thing I heard about this was that it wasn't a terrorist strike, and my first thought was 'Yeah, right, and you'd tell us right away if it was?'. But anyway, yeah it's probably not.

I keep telling my family to leave NY. Weather's a thousand times nicer here (hello highs in the 70s in *August*), and planes don't crash into buildings here. And want to bring up earthquakes? In my four years out here, NY has had more earthquakes they can feel than here in CA.

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[webbapettigrew.livejournal.com]

I know you told me this once, but are your folks from Northern or Southern Maine? I live in Maine (Northern)
~webbapettigrew

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Southern. Auborn (spelling? Auburn?) I believe. It sure is a pretty state, I used to love going there on vacation as a kid.

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

My mom called suddenly this afternoon and I'd had no clue. When I first turned on the news and saw the extent of cities affected I was half convinced it had been something terrorist-related, until I realized they were all in the northeast around the Great Lakes so it was probably a massive fuckup at the main plants.

I /am/ glad I've been in Houston for all the recent stuff going on in NYC. (Thinking about it, I'm glad for personal reasons, too.)

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Bah.

Everyone was getting all hysterical about the blackout yesterday. Everyone's initial reaction was it was a terrorist strike.

This amused the hell out of me, in a dark and twisted way. I blame September 11th. But people seem to forget that 7 years ago, there was a *nine state* blackout out here on the West Coast. Which was caused by almost identical circumstances.

That was what I thought of first, not "terrorists".

:P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Everyone's initial reaction was it was a terrorist strike.

Personally, I think that's a perfectly reasonable thought to have. What was the last bad event of that scale that we had happen here? Seems more likely people would think first of the most recent one, not one many years back...