# The blackout started 5 minutes from my house...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 17, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blackout-started-5-minutes-from-my-house/195716 "2003-08-17T04:07:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blackout-started-5-minutes-from-my-house/195716/1 "2003-08-17T04:07:52Z")

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[Article here](http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/16/power.outage/index.html)

See the towers in that picture? I can see those out my window. Whee.

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blackout-started-5-minutes-from-my-house/195716/2 "2003-08-17T04:11:27Z")

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As long as I’m announcing pointless things: I think I’m dying from a poison slurpee.

Apparently there was a water crisis in Cleveland due to the blackout and water wasn’t getting filtered properly. I live far east enough of the city to be on a seperate water table and thought we were unaffected. Found out that at my work they had problems with the water - ended up having a slurpee from a 7-11 not far off from there and now I’m feeling all weird.

But damn it, if I had to, I’d do it all over again. I’m hooked on slurpees.