I searched on “blackout” and didn’t find that it’s already posted, so here is the blackout from outer space.
Here’s another.
Nice.
That is certainly better than the fake one that is making the rounds.
(I’m removing the link, as it looks to be a private page and I don’t want to kill them on bandwidth.)
On that photo, the time is supposed to be 23:15 EST (when the West Coast would still have another few minutes until sunset), yet the whole of North America is in dark. There are no clouds over any of the country. More of Ohio and less of Michigan than were actually affected are blackened in the picture. (We got power back, east of Cleveland, before 7:30 p.m., while the sun was still up. Much of the area around Akron and south were never hit.) On another site reviewing the fraud, someone posted that there are two separate satellites noted on that picture–one does not have a camera and the other would have been in a different position in the sky. The “blackout” extends out into the Atlantic Ocean. Etc.
Basically, the fraud was Photoshopped from one of the many composites available on the web.
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, Hugh Jass, but the photo you supplied was the fraud I was talking about.
The pictures in Ringo’s link don’t look quite right, either, although I do trust the source. In the lower picure, with the lights on, I can see Long Island and Cape Cod pretty well. But in the blackout picture, Cape Cod is much dimmer even though eastern Massachusetts had power. I wonder if people were conserving, given the circumstances, or if the picture was taken at a different time of night or something.
You know, I wasn’t entirely certain about it. Thanks for the info.
The non-blackout picture was taken at 9:2 PM EDT the day before, while the blackout picture was taken at 9:03 PM. So, approximately the same time of night. Cloud cover, perhaps?
JFTR, Snopes has the one that Mr. Jass provided above. Sez it be false.
I can’t explain NOAA’s photos, though photos from the USAF’s own weather satellite show about the same amount of illumation on Cape Cod (before and after).
