The Northeast Blackout of 2003 was a massive widespread power outage that occurred throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and Ontario, Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003. Although not affecting as many people as the later 2003 Italy blackout, it was the largest blackout in North American history. It affected an estimated 10 million people in the province of Ontario (about one-third of the population of Canada) and 40 million people in eight U.S. states (about one-seventh of the population of the U.S.) Outage-related financial losses were estimated at $6 billion USD.
I had just moved down to Florida a month before, so I wasn't affected by it. But I remember worrying about my elderly parents back in Detroit, and being grateful that they had one landline telephone in their condo, so I could still talk to them.
I remember watching the mass of people walking out of New York on Cnn...
I guess I was lucky, though the stories I heard when I moved back to town, sounds like in some ways to have been fun..neighbors coming together and BBQing and stuff like that.
So, did any of you experience it? Any interesting stories? Did anyone open up their stores of brew to their neighbors? Did anyone brew during that time?