"They want to continue in business without having a blackout or a brownout".
When people live as close together as New Yorkers do, there is no possible way to get through a blackout without rubbing up against someone else's sensibilities.
It was frustrating enough not to be able to reach people online that it was obvious that other ways needed to be found, like when you set up candles in a blackout without it ever occurring to you that it would be fine to sit in the dark.
LONG ISLANDERS made it through this summer without a major blackout, although to stay cool they paid steep electric bills in this era of record prices for the oil and gas that fuel utility generators.
There was no energy shortage for blame-shifting yesterday, as local officials pointed at one another the day after a blackout left millions without power and hundreds shouting for help in stalled elevators.
But the next day, a blackout forced him to improvise -- without electric power.
This activity can be fatal if a blackout occurs, this may occur with or without pain being felt before the blackout.
Hotter than 2006, when a heat wave set off a blackout in northern Queens that left more than 100,000 residents without power for days.
All that remains is a blackout.
"I had a blackout, I'm sorry".
