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Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)

August 16th, 2005

Last night, almost two years exactly to the day of the infamous Blackout of 2003, my entire neighbourhood lost power for THREE HOURS. No joke, I was listening to The Arcade Fire when it happened (admittedly, “Neighbourhood #3″ wasn’t the track that was playing at the moment it happened).

I had to use the light of my iBook to guide me through my pitch black apartment to find a flashlight, and as I wandered downstairs and out onto the lawn, I saw dozens of other seemingly lost people poking around with their own flashlights. It was like a scene out of a David Lynch film…with nothing to really do (cordless phones are rendered useless without electricity to power their base), I just sat in the dark for hours and worked on my laptop until its battery finally died. What do you do when there’s a power outage, without the Internet or a phone connection?

Posted on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 at 10:41 am by and is filed under Blog.

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