Lightless Night. It was a hot summer day in New York. Everyone was busy with their everyday routines. Most people were at work, the rest were occupied with other tasks. I was lying on the couch watching TV and making plans for the evening. Suddenly an air conditioner made a loud noise and the next second everything turned off. It didn't seem as anything extraordinary at first, but after some amount of time I lost …showed first 75 words of 450 total…

…showed last 75 words of 450 total…couldn't even cook dinner for themselves if they had electric stoves. It looked like we moved 50 years back in time. If there were no power for several days, maybe even weeks, then the situation would have become quite anarchical. The next morning the power was restored in some areas of New York and the city began to return to its regular way of life. Weeks later only a few were still thinking about the Blackout.