Since I am in Sunnyside, which up until a few days ago was one of the power outage places in Queens, I guess I should blog my experience on it. I got e-verbal-vomit as I wrote a friend back so I won't bother but to copy & paste aqui:
I'm good. Not too much to report. I was pretty lucky in terms of the blackout. Judging by the news coverage it seemed like your old Ditmars 'hood and Astoria in gen got the shaft. Still it's pretty weird to have Red Cross actually come and "rescue" my community in general though.
But I only had a severe 24-hour taupe-out. I wouldn't even call it a brown out. My fridge, microwave, and a ceiling fan never completely stopped running. And that happened the day just after last week's heat wave. It is a pretty fun feeling to wake up and the power's back on. It's kinda like Christmas morning. I first experienced it back as a kid spending summers in the Dominican Republic. It was also kinda like God 'let there be light'. And you run around turning on random shit just to marvel at it as if it hadn't been there for years... but I digress...
I was surprised to see how kooky the system is. I mean one building would lose power but across the street would be fine or like every other other streetlight would be on the fritz. A good thing was that there was hardly anyone at the post office so the line took no time at all. Although it was pretty scary trying to cross Queens Blvd w/out working streetlights. I decided to go to the library downtown and it was surreal how no one skipped a beat. (Like sorta like coming back to NYC after being in DR or Cuba or somewhere like that.) This was early on, when nobody knew how big the problem was when the mayor brushed off the power outage to the media in favor of congratulating newly graduating teenagers who were starting careers in construction work.
