Blackout + 26 hours.

Yep Skip, it happened in 66! lol

Many subjects and topics have and will continue to be spawned from this event. For the interest of those that can only imagine, it wasn’t as scary as my be first thought. I’ll sharer the first-hand local view of a major city and a thought about the overall effect from the same reports you are getting.

Cleveland is at the end of Tornado Alley so maybe a few more candles and flash light (with batteries kept in the frig) are on hand in the general home. It was only dark for12 hours and 34 minutes for me personally. We already know that NOT opening the frig or freezer will minimize loss for a day. The heat added to the discomfort and water pumping stations being down periodically was more of a concern as something unusual.

Other than a couple dozen reported overnight lootings (including one with a shootout with police) from the few assholes that are always going to be there, the VAST majority of a few million people in the Greater Cleveland area was the same as is being reported on the media. Stories boarding on a party atmosphere and a people friendliness and helpfulness that seems to spring naturally from North Americans was the norm. A lot of neighbors that haven’t spoken for years, if ever, got to say hello.

I’m not so sure I would be writing the same report had it been a duration of more than a couple days, but this was not bad at all. If all continues as is now happening, by a couple tomorrows, it will be an academic study for many groups, fodder for politics and a first event-story for many family gatherings in the future. It has been added to a list of about half dozen for this old fuck.

I was pleased to hear the reports were much the same from Toronto, New York and the other major cities. Of course there was a “terrorist” cry in each group on every street in every city and town effected. It was obviously, quelled or joked about EVERYWHERE, and panic or rumors was not a concern. That is the most notable happening about the event to me. In the world and society of today, the whole subversive issue is real,… but was NOT allowed to create instant panic or civil disorder. I DO believe that is perhaps the most potent defense we have with this kind of modern threat. If we didn’t eliminate electric service disruption as a target to them, we sure did reduce it value. For that I am proud of both the Canadians and Americans and want to thank you all for helping with the only real defense there is. The people!!!!


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