Canadianmumof5 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Ktgrok's thread about her loss of AC reminded me of the great blackout of 2003 on the east coast. It was August 14th. It was DH's birthday and we had ordered an ice cream cake for him. He ended up with a stale bran muffin with a candle in it :blink: I was 7 months pregnant with DD and it was sooooo hot - and of course no power meant no AC. Fortunately I think we had power back up & running in just over 24 hours but that was pretty crazy for the people without power for much longer than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I was at home and didn't even realize anything had happened. Dh was at work, in the employee bathroom, on the toilet when the lights went out. :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I'd just moved to AB Sept 02. So I was :lol: at my parents, who'd done nothing but criticize my decision to move. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssavings Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 In Europe for my sophomore year of college. I remember hearing about it from people at home, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghee Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I was also 7 months pregnant in August 03. This was with my third child, it was sooo miserably hot! Small wonder he was my last ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whereneverever Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 High school? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momacacia Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Newly married, pre-kids, living in DC and experiencing the blackout, too. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleIzumi Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Getting MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :party: (I was in the southwest. No blackouts for us.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I don't remember. I had a preschooler going through neuro evals, a 14.5mo, and a 1.5mo old screamer. I think the east coast could have fallen into the ocean and I wouldn't have noticed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyof4ks Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I was also 7 months pregnant, but we did not have blackouts. It was still a miserably hot summer, and being pregnant in the summer was no fun. I only did that once lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 No blackout where I was - Oklahoma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 My grandma called me up on Saturday and said, " So, are you sitting around in the dark?" "No," I told her, totally mystified. "It's ten in the morning. The sun is up." The only way this comment makes sense is because she generally keeps her blinds down, but...? I was pregnant too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nono Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 We were here in Cape May County, NJ. We had satellite at the time and paid to have NY stations in addition to Phila. At the time, it was our second home, and we lived in Bergen County, NJ, which was affected. It was hilarious switching back and forth between NY and Phila. In Phila., the world was close to ending, according to Ch. 6. In NYC, Ch. 4 was showing how well everyone was coping. Having lived in both places, it was such a perfect contrast. We were :lol::lol::lol::lol: at the contrast reporting the exact same event in real time. Both my parents were visiting. We didn't lose power here. Paybacks came a few years later when a blizzard took out the whole island and it took 3 weeks and 9 electric companies to get all of us back on the grid. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelotmom Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 We were in Northern Virginia. DS was 1.5months old. I can't recall it in the slightest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 No blackout here, but that was our first summer in this house--no ac yet. And it was a hot summer. My youngest was 7 months old and went around in just a diaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I was at work in a mall. I was newly pregnant with DS1 so he is considered in the blackout baby statistic.:blushing: We were in an apartment without electricity for 3 days. My parents were only affected for a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Also seven months pregnant and in Northern Virginia. I don’t remember it that well, I do remember being miserably hot that August though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Sitting in the midwest with the TV on watching people on the East Coast walk on the roadways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeganCupcake Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Working in China. I had access to CNN, though, so I knew about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 We were living in Georgia... but my parents were affected. I'm worried with the crazy heat we're going to get here this next week (108 on Friday, and about a week of over 100, that we may lose power). This part of the country is definitely not used to that... it's bad here if it's over 95 for a day or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reign Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I was at home in metro Detroit. I left the next day to drive to Canada and see Radiohead. I loved Toronto! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I was also in the Metro Detroit area. I'd had a play date, with a friend and her toddler son, at my house. Despite how hot it was, we were playing outside and had no idea anything had happened until we went in. She tried reaching her husband, who was working at Wayne State, and I tried reaching mine, who was working at University of Michigan. Nothing. Nobody could get through on cellphones and I plugged in a land line to call my husband's office, but he had already left. I was so happy when he got home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atozmom Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 There were no blackouts here thank God. I was in the hospital giving birth to my son on Aug 14th of 2003. :001_smile: I do remember it being a very hot summer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EducationX2 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 August 14th 2003..... I was.... most likely drunk. Hey, you asked! I vaguely remember the blackouts, even though I was in Maryland. I had turned 18 and graduated high school that summer. It was a good summer. :tongue_smilie:Spent the summer working with my best friend and a group of fun people, and almost every night after work we went swimming and drank at my house. (I was the only one under 21). We have lots of fun stories from that summer. I was also dating the guy that was my "first love" and would soon be the first to break my heart. Ahh... good times. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaffodilDreams Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) I was in China. They were also supposedly experiencing power shortages, but somehow the hotels I stayed in, my workplace, and restaurants I frequented never seemed to be affected. Edited June 28, 2012 by kimmie38017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 On August 14th, 2003 I was in the hospital with my newly second DS :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MollyAnn Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 August 03, we were living in TX but for that whole month the kids and I were visiting my parents in MI. I don't remember anything about the east coast being without power. DH was deployed to Iraq and I was pretty much staying away from all news sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfknitter.# Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I was a first time mom, only 10 days in. So I would have been at my mom's (because our place was so tiny and she wanted to help even thought she worked part time.) Being in the sw, I remember watching the blackouts on the news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I have no idea what you are talking about, no black outs here. I was probably getting ready for school and sitting at the pool with friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessReplanted Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I remember! We were here in PA, and my oldest was 8 months old. We lost power for much of one day, but not nearly as long as those in the east. I remember being so surprised to discover that the whole east coast was out! And now, whenever the power goes out, I always wonder if it is something happening locally or nationally (or globally). :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 No blackout, I lived in Los Angeles. I was going to work I am quite sure. I don't have a calendar in front of me, but it was a work day. Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I think that was our first summer in MT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I used a land line phone to call my ds in California so she could check the internet and tell me why the power was out. It was creepy, summer, good weather no apparent cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Dressed to the nines with white and hat and gloves having formal tea at a lovely tea house with the ladies in my extended family. My beloved paternal grandmother had a stroke that year and her health had improved enough to have an outing. We wanted to do something memorable since we knew we wouldn't have her around much longer. The tea house was amazing! The owner had purchased wedding dresses at garage sales and made table skirting out of the skirts and trains of the dresses...decorations from the sleeves and bodices. The place was exquisite and worth every penny we paid. We heard about the black-out while we were there...dad called my mom's cell phone. My niece, living in Manhatten at that time, was taking the stairs (she was on the 24th floor of her building) down to ground level and beginning the two mile walk home to her apartment - I think there was a lot of fear when the blackout hit because at first thoughts strayed to 911. It was over 90 degrees and I knew it was going to be a brutal afternoon for her. My grandma wanted to stop and pray right there on the spot and the dear owner of the tea house said she wanted to be a part of that. She came and laid her hand on grandma's shoulder while we prayed. It was very touching and a cherished memory. Poor dh, on the other hand, was in an office building in Troy and the traffic getting out of that city was hideous. What should have been a 1.75 hr. drive home, turned into a 4.5 hr. drive. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Ds1 was 6 mos. old. Dh and I still lived in his condo. He stayed there, but ds and I went to my house (I owned a duplex with my mother before I got married), because the condo lost water along with the power. I guess they needed electricity to pump the water from wherever it was. We had no electricity at my house, but the water was from a tower, and that was okay. All the neighbors were hanging out outside, trying to keep cool, and it almost felt like a party atmosphere. I remember filling up the baby pool and we all sat in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa in Jax Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Ktgrok's thread about her loss of AC reminded me of the great blackout of 2003 on the east coast. It was August 14th. It was DH's birthday and we had ordered an ice cream cake for him. He ended up with a stale bran muffin with a candle in it :blink: I was 7 months pregnant with DD and it was sooooo hot - and of course no power meant no AC. Fortunately I think we had power back up & running in just over 24 hours but that was pretty crazy for the people without power for much longer than that. This post is the first I've ever read about a blackout on the east coast in 2003. ;) That's probably b/c August 14th, 2003 we were in Mumbai, India, picking up our son from the orphanage, and weren't up on the US news. FWIW, it was hotter than hot in Mumbai -- and humid as heck. Hotter and more humid than this Florida resident had ever experienced! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavis Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I was pregnant and probably floating in the pool or in front of the A/C. I had my son on August 16th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Wow. How old were you when your first child was born? High school? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in AUS Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 In Europe on my honeymoon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 It was the summer between high school and college, and I was working the most boring job I've had in my life. I was in the midwest, and our power didn't go out, but I remember thinking it might not be that bad if it did because then I could go home. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 We didn't lose power, here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemongoose Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 On my honeymoon!:party: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) I dont remember that at all. Edited June 28, 2012 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tess in the Burbs Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I was overdue on my dd's pregnancy in the heat wave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabelen Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Outskirts of DC. We did experience the blackout but I think it was shortlived. May be just a little over one day? We missed the AC and the community pool closed, but we did enjoy the icecream in the freezer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Suburban Detroit with 2 littles and a missing dh. He had ran out of gas on the way home!:lol: After he walked home and paid the neighbor kid for helping him rescue the car--kid had a full gas can. We went to bed. We headed in my car for my mom's house the next day. She lives in a place in Northern Michigan that still had power! Sad thing was we had a generator -- just no fuel for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Goldwater Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 On our way to the east coast for a family member's funeral. Had radio on and in the car and heard, "WHAT WAS THAT?!? ARE WE STILL ON?!?!?!?" I thought there was an EMP attack. We picked up pizza in PA, where there we found a town that still had power, to bring to the family that was 'in the dark,' where we stayed over and sweltered on the floor of their living room. Worried all night that the viewing would be by candlelight, but power was back on by then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Living in the middle of the city, with two little girls and a 1 yo baby boy. We were so poor back then, I thought dh just hadn't been able to pay the electric bill. :lol: Then, we got in the car, and I heard about the blackouts on the radio. We went to stay out of the city, because we didn't want to be there when it was dark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I wasn't in the blackout area. I do however, remember the November blackout in 1965. It meant no school, which certainly made it memorable. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edeemarie Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I was 8 months pregnant, but living in southern California. I heard all about it from my family back east. Glad to not be a part of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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