threeplusfire: (Default)
three ([personal profile] threeplusfire) wrote2003-08-14 04:10 pm

Power Outage

The word at the moment is that it is a massive power grid failure, not terrorism. The phones are crazy, but I'm trying to get ahold of NYC people.
curmudgn: (explaining it all)

Actually, I did that

[personal profile] curmudgn 2003-08-14 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I turned it into a snarl in my own LJ, then got called away and didn't get to kill the comment over here. And really, what I said here wasn't intended as snarky. It's more the despair of middle age and long memory watching the world repeating itself.

it's not unexpected

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2003-08-14 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the government and the media have done a lot to create a sort of expectation of terror amongst the folks, and so even ordinary problems become tainted with the suspicion that it might be terrorism.

It's alrighty really.