• Dearche
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    10 months ago

    Woo, 20 years. Makes me feel old.

    I think I just lazed around the entire time. It was weird breaking out the radio back then. Not sure I even have one now.

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      10 months ago

      This is why I have typically stuck with moto brand phones they still have fm receivers. I should get an AM radio though.

  • deltatux :mapleleaf:@mstdn.ca
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    10 months ago

    @jimmyjamxoxo

    Still remember in my teens playing #Starcraft when the power suddenly cut as I was about to save my game lol.

    Still had fun doing other things, including a night walk in the neighbourhood without power & seeing the stars so clearly because there’s no light pollution.

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    10 months ago

    Who remembers that day? I had a nice long walk home from downtown along lake shore with tens of thousands. It was a pleasant summer day.

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      10 months ago

      I was camping with my buddy. We had no idea it happened untill we got back.

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        10 months ago

        I didn’t live far from downtown back then so lucky for me, I could walk home. It was a long walk for some people.

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      10 months ago

      Yep, I actually like these occurances; work stops, phonecalls stop, sit and hangout with family, play cards by candle light. There was the 3 day ice storm one too. Fired up the BBQ for boiling water for coffee and cooking food. Thankfully we had an old gas water heater with passive vent so we could still have hot water fr showers.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    ET on Aug. 14, 2003, Toronto — along with a number of cities including New York, Cleveland and Ottawa — came to a standstill as traffic lights, office buildings, subways and airports shut down.

    Tom Adams, an energy analyst, said he recalls the immediate “wild speculation, often political in nature,” about the cause of the blackout.

    “There was initially speculation that there had been a terrorist attack or that a nuclear power plant had gone up,” he told CBC News.

    After coming in contact with some overgrown trees, power lines from a FirstEnergy generating plant in a suburb of Cleveland had shut down.

    In Canada, the power outage affected most of Ontario including Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Sudbury, Kitchener, London and Windsor.

    “Other kinds of critical infrastructure — water pumping stations, sewage treatment plants, communication centres — there was a widespread change in the emergency preparedness practices after that event that has given us lasting benefits and, you know, in the ensuing 20 years we haven’t had anything like a repeat of that event.”


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