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Black Out Anniversary
Today is the anniversary of the blackout of 2003.
Im sure everyone has a story.
Last year, 2 days before Oakey was to spin at guv the power went out.
When it happened, i was sitting at my desk at work. My overhead light started to dim which made me think we are having a brown out so i remember thinking to myself "i'll do my part to conserve and shut my lights off". 2 seconds later power went out, i didnt realize it at first cuz my laptop was still working off battery and the network was running on emergency back up . After realizing what happened i joined the rest of the building to come up with theories and search cnn or cbc for terrorist attacks. I remember looking out the window to the construction going on in the middle of the road and saying they probably cut the power lines. So, 2 girls i work with went outside and accused them of cutting our power. LOL. Then we found out it was the whole North Eastern region.
I left waterloo to return to hamilton. Took the back roads to avoid chaos on the highways. Since my parents were away on vacation, i hurried to the restaurant to put everything in the big freezers.
The next day, we had the biggest and best bbq ever which we still talk about and call "blackout 2003 party". Awesome time.
Oakey finished off that great weekend at guv.
Whats your story?
removed: fake pic.
Toronto.. so dark, has never been so beautiful.
fyi, the satellite pic is fake 
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| Originally posted by Dr. Z Toronto.. so dark, has never been so beautiful. |
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| Originally posted by DJ El Kay Dee i sat on the pavement and just gazed up in aww that night....was the most beautiful sight i had ever seen |
amazing timne..i say they cut the power every year...it was amazing...i remember comin home from work and then beer and then a huge party on my street..hooked up with a few broads i didnt even knew lived by me..heading to their house..hmm...dont remember much then remember a meteor shower which i watched for a few hours in my backyard with my mom while i chained smoked and she took a nap...amazing experience....
oh ya i remember eating barebeque for the next 3 days and my friend who lived down the street in the more richy neighbourhoods having full power and me being pissed off abt it
I was working at wonderland! And, as you can imagine, all the rides stopped. Fortunately, most of the rides at wonderland have fail safes in the sense that once they start they use kinetic energy etc. to complete. However, one ride, the boat that goes up and down like a swing, couldn't stop! Kids were stuck on it, swinging, for an extended period of time and started blowing chunks over the side 
The managers of the park eventually had to physically step in and manually stop it, lol. After, we got paid to just walk around the park and direct people out of the park. Then, all the employees went and had a wonderland financed BBQ!
Such a sweet day!
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| Originally posted by cap I was working at wonderland! And, as you can imagine, all the rides stopped. Fortunately, most of the rides at wonderland have fail safes in the sense that once they start they use kinetic energy etc. to complete. However, one ride, the boat that goes up and down like a swing, couldn't stop! Kids were stuck on it, swinging, for an extended period of time and started blowing chunks over the side The managers of the park eventually had to physically step in and manually stop it, lol. After, we got paid to just walk around the park and direct people out of the park. Then, all the employees went and had a wonderland financed BBQ! Such a sweet day! |
It's the pendulum boat, and without power brakes, good luck defying the laws of physics, and getting all the momentum stopped lol.
I was working my day job at the time ... power went out and my boss calls to send me home. Got home and rush to a chinese resturant to buy food for my parents and got ripped off 
Chilled outside for a while and talked to a few ppl. Later on the night, Deep Groove and I went racing in the streets with the lights off 
On that day, I realize ... how friendly we can be if we only tried. Strangers talking to strangers and having a jolly time. Once the power came back, the normal attitude was back to normal.
I was working in a warehouse @ the time, and the power went out just as I was making a turn on my machine... took it right into the wall and had to leap off into a slot full of boxes..
My favorite part of the blackout had to be walking the danforth early in the am, getting barbeque, grabbing a beer here and there since bylaw oficers weren't working... goodtimes
Hehe, funny how everyone loved this... perhaps we should just reconsider our way of living... hehe.. or perhaps not...
anyway, you should be glad it didn't happen 12 januari or something... that would have been terrible...
I was at work, printing photos in the lab, and I was right in the middle of doing an enlargement, and the power went off ! All of the pictures inside the printing machine were stuck and ruined, there had to be about 200 photos in there, I was pissed !! Then we had to take apart the machine and rip them all out.
When I got home my dad was BBQ'ing everything he could find because he had just filled the freezer with groceries the day before. I remember him saying "I am going to feed this steak to a random dog, there is just so much food here ! Hey Linz, invite your friends over for dinner"....haha I dunno it was pretty funny at the time.
Everyone in my area has generators, because of the icestorm. So it wasn't much of a blackout here.
oh man i got stuck in new york after a 16hr flight from johanesburg(south africa). man that sucked, imagine a new york airport with all flights cancelled and everyone is pissed off, i spent two days in that city. i got to explore manhatten though, which was cool.
I was studying for a calculus exam that evening, which was susposed to happen early next morning. Holy SHIT - that blackout saved my ass, cause I would've been screwed if I had to take it that morning. That exam got rescheduled 5 days later.
Every single day before the rescheduled exam date, I studied my ass off morning-till-midnight to ensure that I would not fail it.
and that's my blackout story.
i ended up bumping into DJ Hordash at Finch Station that afternoon .. and i'll i'm gonna say is .. whatta !@#%^^'n crazy nite that turned out to be ! 
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL i ended up bumping into DJ Hordash at Finch Station that afternoon .. and i'll i'm gonna say is .. whatta !@#%^^'n crazy nite that turned out to be ! |
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| Originally posted by E2EK1EL On that day, I realize ... how friendly we can be if we only tried. Strangers talking to strangers and having a jolly time. Once the power came back, the normal attitude was back to normal. |
I was starting to do a brake job on a TTC bus when EVERYTHING went dark in our shop...I knew right away that THIS blackout was severe since power failures in our shop rarelly occur...We basically just sat around outside & enjoyed watching the stars & loving the peace & quiet To this day we make sure that there are no A/C & lites left on in any of the management offices...We can't waste electricity as we all did in the past...
Well, did pretty much nothing, i was working till 8 that evening, we have backup generators, and for a corp to shut down is impossible.lol
Anyhow, i went home and had a few beers sat outside and gazed at the skys, was amazing!
Today, the 16th, was the night Oakey spun at the Guv!!!
As for my blackout story, I was working at the Coca-Cola Canning plant in Weston when the power went out... They made us stay until 9pm that night but we ended up drinking gallons of pop that were stuck on the lines and gave out cans to motorists passing by!
The drive home was scary tho... Driving down the 400 at night with no lights, it felt like I was in the booneys or something!?
I remember seeing all the stars and even some shooting stars, wow, what a beautiful night that was... Oh yeah, numerous joints were smoked as well, the best session was near Sunnyside, blazing a fatty and looking at a DARK downtown from the shore
DVD2004 had a BBQ.....a group of us from work went to her place, drank, played cards, ate, goofed around.....good times
Could see the stars so clearly that night too.....beautiful sight
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