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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrooklynKnight" data-source="post: 1070765" data-attributes="member: 4490">GWAAAAAR!!!This is reporter ArthurQ coming to you live from NYC!At the current time most of upstate NY has power back online with occasional rolling brownouts as the power grid is tenativly back up.Most portions of Queens and Almost all of Staten Island have power. Aprrox 25% of the city also has power.A few portions of Brooklyn are under power though most of it is still down.I am reporting from a cousin's house. She lives in a complex which has its own generator system thus we are under power.Let me tell you folks this has been one of the most harrowing experiences of my life. This is the US of A not some dinky place in Europe, or Asia, or Africa. Things like this should not happen.To be quite literrally in a dead city for hours on end. No light...no anything...Unlike many years ago people dont carry shortwave radios around anymore. People dont store candles in the closets the way they used too. NYC...dark....a sight I never in my life I would have expected to witness. Police and ambulence sirens blaring. The second time in my life I felt like I was living in a movie. Shortly after the blackout, (which occured roughly at 4:15 or 4:20pm) I started to direct traffic at an intersection by my apartment in order to releive conjestion by our street.This was the second day in a row I was without net and airconditioning cause the day before my building's fuses blew and i had to go to my parents house.This has been ArthurQ giving you a live update from NYC.</blockquote>

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