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<blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1071904" data-attributes="member: 2020">Well, I'm back.&nbsp; Nothing like being a part of history, no?&nbsp; 50 million people without power, running water, or clean water of any sort.&nbsp; &nbsp; And yeah, we sweated through the hot night last night.&nbsp; Yeah, we lost all our food.&nbsp; Yeah, we discovered the new truth:&nbsp; lanterns and candles were suddenly the latest in high technology.&nbsp; We also took the Spook Drive.&nbsp; And it is spooky, when you drive through vast commercial areas and regions where hundreds of thousands live, and there is nothing.&nbsp; Just nothing.&nbsp; Downtowns are ghosttowns, dead, silent, and utterly dark.&nbsp; You cannot see anything outside of downtowns.&nbsp; The silouettes of trees, homes, and buildings rise black against the hazy moon, but elsewhere there is only a deep darkness.&nbsp; The stars shine down brilliantly from overhead.&nbsp; For the sky is dark - it is nearly totally dark, for the first time ever.&nbsp; You try to walk down your block, but it is so dark you cannot see the sidewalk, much less the houses on either side of the street.&nbsp; And there is no light, anywhere.&nbsp; The moon shines down ferociously, uncontested.&nbsp; It is like being deep in a wilderness forest, in some remote place (northern Ontario, Yellowstone, northern Nevada, and in this case in the middle of a city of 5 million people) in the middle of the night.&nbsp; The only sound are insects.&nbsp; There is no movement to be seen (not even any clouds in the sky.)&nbsp; There is only the profound darkness, where once our civilization was.&nbsp; That was (and still is, in some areas) the effect of the blackout, at least here in metropolitan Detroit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Edena_of_Neith, post: 1071904, member: 2020"] Well, I'm back. Nothing like being a part of history, no? 50 million people without power, running water, or clean water of any sort. And yeah, we sweated through the hot night last night. Yeah, we lost all our food. Yeah, we discovered the new truth: lanterns and candles were suddenly the latest in high technology. We also took the Spook Drive. And it is spooky, when you drive through vast commercial areas and regions where hundreds of thousands live, and there is nothing. Just nothing. Downtowns are ghosttowns, dead, silent, and utterly dark. You cannot see anything outside of downtowns. The silouettes of trees, homes, and buildings rise black against the hazy moon, but elsewhere there is only a deep darkness. The stars shine down brilliantly from overhead. For the sky is dark - it is nearly totally dark, for the first time ever. You try to walk down your block, but it is so dark you cannot see the sidewalk, much less the houses on either side of the street. And there is no light, anywhere. The moon shines down ferociously, uncontested. It is like being deep in a wilderness forest, in some remote place (northern Ontario, Yellowstone, northern Nevada, and in this case in the middle of a city of 5 million people) in the middle of the night. The only sound are insects. There is no movement to be seen (not even any clouds in the sky.) There is only the profound darkness, where once our civilization was. That was (and still is, in some areas) the effect of the blackout, at least here in metropolitan Detroit. [/QUOTE]

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