So how did you cope without air conditioners or fans operating back then? On that sweltering Wednesday Evening, of July 13, 1977 I was in the comfort and safety of my home, with my family. While I watched outside the livingroom window, I noticed some of the lights of the streetlamps were out. Then at approximately at 9:15 p.m. the madness had began, at first I thought it was just my neighborhood, but it's the entire city affected by the blackout. Stores were looted, ransacked and vandalized. There were even some arsonous fires throughout the night, in most sections of The Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Me and my family was well prepared, of having some flashlights handy for use. I turned on a small transistor radio, which only receives AM frequency. There was no running water in the apartment. Power was restored by the morning, sure was a shame for food, being thrown out from the refrigerator.
2007-07-13
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