Where were you at this time?

Floating around in the great unknown...yet to be conceived!

That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia.......Oh wait, that is a little too far south.

The Northeast blackout right? It was before my cognizant memory I was 3. My parents spoke of it
but I don't know if we were affected by it. I don't know if it reached our little corner of South Jersey.

I was 9 years away from being conceived.

Probably playing with my sisters.


I remember in 1975, a local radio station had "Where were you..." and this one guy said that his parents punished him because they thought that he messed with the fuse box.



Cat

Floating around in the great unknown...yet to be conceived!


There were hundreds, maybe thousands that were floating in the great unknown that night who were concieved and were born 9 months later to the day.

Where were you at this time?



I just punched out from after school job and while driving home the music stopped on my car radio and all the lights went out in town too. Some stores had generators for light, but 99% of the town went dead. I thought that was the coolest thing to happen, and me and a few friends drove to New York City to see it without lights on. It wasn't easy to get there, the National Guards at first wouldn't let us through the Lincoln Tunnel but convinced them that I had to pick up my grandmother from a hospital, so they let me through and it was wierd to see no lights on in any building in the city. The army set up WWII airplane search lights shining down 5th Ave and in Times Square people walking up tracks from subways trains that stopped, and Grand Central Station had thousands of people walking in a daze not knowing what to do. People offerd me money to take them home in my car, but there was no room for a hundred people. It was cool to see that this happening, but it started to be scary with people like Zombies walking around wanting help, so we left after being there two hours. For many days later it was the hot topic on all radio and TV shows and even a movie was made about this black out and the coincidence of the birth hundreds of babies born 9 months to the day from that night.

I was a just a concept in time somewhere in the universe.

Taken the time as read as a 5 hour difference for GMT, probably at school.

I, too, was not yet conceived.  In fact, my parents had not even met yet.  They were both still in high school at the time, but did not know each other there.  My mom never mentioned being in any major blackouts, so perhaps it did not affect eastern Ohio.

My parents were still dating at this time, they were 4 years away from being married.

Hmm, let's see...

I was in Kindergarten -  ::) I'd been there about two months.  My little brother was still a small infant.  Plus it was my dad's birthday.

Ok - I don't remember what I was doing then.  Maybe having birthday cake?  :D

http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2010/11/Times-Square-1965-resized.jpg

Is this what it looked like on 11/9/1965?

We didn't have a blackout in Chicago... 

http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2010/11/Times-Square-1965-resized.jpg

Is this what it looked like on 11/9/1965?


Yes, the light was a airplane search light, like the one they put up in front of stores that have grand openings. I was on that street, it's 5th Ave.. 

Yes, the light was a airplane search light, like the one they put up in front of stores that have grand openings. I was on that street, it's 5th Ave..


When did the lights go back on?  ???

When did the lights go back on?  ???


Slowly by the next morning they all were coming back on, but some where out for more than a day after.

Slowly by the next morning they all were coming back on, but some where out for more than a day after.


That reminds me of The New York blackout of August 2003.