In a photo taken by Diane Bondareff posted on freerepublic.com, it shows one of the terrible after effects that arose due to the result of an earlier blackout that took place on the east coast. In a NYC subway station on a hot summer day, many New Yorkers are seen leaving a train which had lost power and walking in conditions which most may have never experienced before without proper cooling or ventilation systems working. That circumstance alone has forced people who may have not liked each other to work together and brought everyone together who may have distanced themselves at once into one collective group called “human beings”. This day will forever be in our American history.
It definitely was a time where we as a people had to think fast and affective. Most of us had to preserve what we had and use what we normally didn’t use to survive. It was only 24 hours but it seemed like eternity. Thanks for the comments though…:-)
I will never forget that day, too. I worked as a teacher assistant in a elementary school at that summer. On that day, our school had activities in another school. After we finished all activies, on the midway back to our school, all our elementary students and staff stuck in trains and finally needed to walk more than 1 hour and a half back to school. The students i took care were all 5-6 years old. On the way back to school, they cried for water, complained about the hotness,told our staff that they were sleepy, tired, hungry…… What a cruel summer day!!!
(More, there was another one hour walk for me back home.)
I missed that one, I was living in Virginia Beach at the time. I remember my mother telling that the whole neighborhood would just be outside grilling and waiting. That must of been the worst to be without light, AC, food and the biggest safety. Thank God NYC came out of it with minimal damage.
I like that picture that was something big I forgot about. I was stranded away from my friends for where I lived at the time… Just stuck on the lower east side in the middle of nowhere.