the great northeast blackout of 2003

first off, contrary to the story that the media may have related, the entire northeast was not plunged into darkness on thursday afternoon. for example, most of vermont had power (including us).

but check out these photos for a feeling of what it was like.

plus recipes for emptying your refrigerator.

and overheard by brian somewhere (maybe the radio) when everyone was trying to lay blame for the outage 'when has the united states ever taken the responsibility for anything?'