PhotonBoy
Flashlight Enthusiast
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0904/p18s02-hfes.html?entryBottomStory
"When the power failed last month, we were walking the beach at the eastern tip of Long Island, watching waves crash and slide across the sand, blessedly disconnected from the usual routines and preoccupations of life. Our days there had been bracingly elemental, reduced to little more than sun, sand, water, and wind, our eyes grown accustomed to a simple spectrum of white, blue, and green. So we didn't realize that anything was amiss until we returned to our beach-side rooms and noticed a small crowd of hotel guests surrounding a portable radio perched on a picnic table. Most of the Northeast was without electricity, we quickly learned - eight states and two Canadian provinces. And no one knew the cause...."
"When the power failed last month, we were walking the beach at the eastern tip of Long Island, watching waves crash and slide across the sand, blessedly disconnected from the usual routines and preoccupations of life. Our days there had been bracingly elemental, reduced to little more than sun, sand, water, and wind, our eyes grown accustomed to a simple spectrum of white, blue, and green. So we didn't realize that anything was amiss until we returned to our beach-side rooms and noticed a small crowd of hotel guests surrounding a portable radio perched on a picnic table. Most of the Northeast was without electricity, we quickly learned - eight states and two Canadian provinces. And no one knew the cause...."
