# Power Outage--Not All Bad **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 15, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274 "2003-08-15T00:09:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/1 "2003-08-15T00:09:01Z")
No electricity from the muddy banks of the Cayahouga to the outskirts of Wilmington, DL, to the manicured lawns of suburban Conn. to the wilds of Onterio. Some 50 millions of good folks without electricity. Darkness approaching. But its not all bad news. Consider: 1. We can post political balderdash on _General Questions_ and **Manhatten** , the moderator, not the bough, is powerless to strike it down with his terrible swift sward of correct posting . He is rendered impotent. 2. Our friend **December** , the grouch of New Jersey, the running dog of the Republican National Committee, is without a voice. We lefty pinko my post away on stuff directly and overtly critical of the present Administration without looking over our shoulder for a convoluted response from somewhere in the Pine Barrens. It ain’t all bad. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/2 "2003-08-15T00:10:15Z")
That should read “We lefty pinkos may…” ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/3 "2003-08-15T00:14:34Z")
The board does seem faster. Do we really need the Detroit dopers? j/k, but will there be a baby boom in 9 months? That’s what i want to know! ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/4 "2003-08-15T00:48:26Z")
Probably not in NYC, considering that hot and humid really isn’t pleasant weather for bump and grind. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/5 "2003-08-15T01:24:21Z")
Manhattan is spelled with all A’s. Initial reaction to hearing of power outage: “Is my Mom ok?” Secondary reaction to hearing of power outage: “THE BOARDS ARE GONNA BE LIGHTNING!” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/6 "2003-08-15T01:29:30Z")
Do we really need 24 hr coverage of this on the News Channels? I wanna know what the hell’s going on in Iraq!! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/7 "2003-08-15T01:30:44Z")
Hey, the PGA Championship wasn’t affected, so who cares??? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/8 "2003-08-15T01:51:05Z")
The most amazing news is the news that isn’t, like the dog that didn’t bark. Nothing much happened, they just dealt with it. Far fucking out. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/9 "2003-08-15T01:57:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > Manhattan is spelled with all A’s. No, you use an H, a M, two N’s and two T’s as well. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/10 "2003-08-15T03:32:48Z")
Here’s something I’ve been wondering. What do the stars look like over a blacked out NYC? ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/11 "2003-08-15T05:33:40Z")
As long as we’re picking spelling nits: the abbreviation for Delaware is DE, not DL. ---
**Author:** ![bo989](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@bo989](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bo989)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/12 "2003-08-15T05:40:06Z")
And you butchered ONTARIO. And referring to it as any sort of wilderness? Have you ever left Iowa? ---
**Author:** ![Spooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Spooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spooky)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/13 "2003-08-15T06:06:19Z")
It’s spelled Cuyahoga. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/14 "2003-08-15T06:35:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Here’s something I’ve been wondering. What do the stars look like over a blacked out NYC? \*\* Considering the smog that’s still in the air, probably about the same. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/15 "2003-08-15T09:38:36Z")
Sword. Sword. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/16 "2003-08-15T12:09:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Here’s something I’ve been wondering. What do the stars look like over a blacked out NYC? \*\* In Brooklyn there were children in the street looking up and asking their parents “What’s that?” In Hicksville, there was a lady desperatly trying her card at the bank door. I don’t think she fully understood what a power outtage entails. I hear the President gave a speech. Not too many people in the NY area heard it. Was it any good? The only very bad thing (as opposed to just annoying) was the fact that it took me 7 hours to get home to Brooklyn from Hicksville. But even that had a silver lining since I only had to walk the last 5 or 6 miles from the East New York depot to home. How I wished I had sneakers on. I too thought of how fast the board must be. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/17 "2003-08-15T17:46:11Z")
You missed a good game between San Fran and Oakland. Sorry. Were any East coast games affected last night as well? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/18 "2003-08-15T18:14:22Z")
Reporting in from Brooklyn here. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Here’s something I’ve been wondering. What do the stars look like over a blacked out NYC? \*\* Pretty strange site if you ask me. BedStuy (where I live) is certainly an interesting place during a blackout. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/19 "2003-08-15T18:36:13Z")
My Palm wireless internet service was working throughout the evening and well into the morning. The eye in Barad-dûr never sleeps. ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274/20 "2003-08-16T02:05:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Here’s something I’ve been wondering. What do the stars look like over a blacked out NYC? \*\* Actually it was a lovely moonlit night. I except I’ll never see NYC streets lit my moonlight again. My power just came back on. I’m pretty annoyed at the local TV stations and Bloomberg. I happened to have a battery-operated TV and there was no useful information, just interviews with people complaining. Bloomberg claimed the power would be on last night and it wasn’t. This afternoon he claimed that power had been restored in all but a couple of small neighborhoods and we were still blacked out. You’d think the mayor would try to keep on top of these things. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-not-all-bad/195274.md?page=2)