Here is something to remember, it was the most exciting night of the year!!!

Absolutely!

The Great Blackout of 2003, happened on August 14th. A power surge at an Ohio power plant forced a cascade shutdown of the power grid along the eastern seaboard.

It was an interesting night, no lights, no electrical humming, and stars...wow, the night sky was a lot different without that city "glow"

Go Ohio!!! WOOT! It'* funny because eveyone first blamed Canada about the whole blackout...

Yeah, that part was nice. What pissed me off though was that my neighbors, just down the block from where I live, got their power back at 7PM. My area didn't get the AC(and the A/C) back until 5AM the next morning. It was a warm night and the house was too hot to get a good nights rest.

There was alot of activity here that night, just talking about it and figuring out who it affected.

it sucked for me because I was at work in a restaurant and the power shut off and we had to hurry and take care of all the food, seal the walk-in-cooler, etc. Oh, and the alarm started going off and couldn't be shut off because of a malfunction. :( Great fun.. riiight. lol.

light pollution sucks... i heart astronomy!!!

Its a shame that we need a blackout to find that "quality" time :?

I say once a year, we just shut er down for a night....heh, never gonna happen so I'll just wait for the next blackout.

last year was the first time a city slicker like me saw the milky way.