Major power outage hits New York, other large cities

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Originally posted by Cloud9

One MAJOR concern that this brings to my mind...WTF is up with all this Homeland Security bullshit we've been fed for the past year? If this had been a terrorist attack, it would have been a disaster, it took way too long for the city to get organized and get people out!!!!!! If you consider this to have been a test or drill of our city's ability to handle disasters, I would say it failed to a large extent. That's very worrisome, especially when you consider that enemies here and abroad were probably watching closely to see how this situation was being handled...

They have said that the reason why it wasdealt with so 'well' was because New Yorkers were prepared after 9/11. Although things ran smoothly (to some degree) if this WAS a terrorist attack, you wouldn't hear anyone saying that it ran so soomthly. This just showed, IMO, how un-prepared we are still for anthor attack. BTW, the major problem my family had was having batteries for radio's...I had my discman that has a radio but it took awhile to figure out anthor radio that we had that ran on batteries that we had (AA). In the end I remembered that our radio in the bathroom ran on AA. We BBQ last night only because there was so much meat that was already defrosted, and the night before we lived on canned foods and anything that we could grab if we opened the firdge for a few seconds.