Another gorgeous Tom Dowling NYC photo…
Taken during the blackout and emailed to The Undisputed…
Impressive!!!
Beautiful photo. Makes me miss NYC.
Tery (who busted her tkelly ID so is back as CTWhistler)
Wow. Magnificent.
To save a click:
Beautiful, indeed.
I attended the University of Vermont for a couple of years
in the 50s,
and often returned to New York on a Greyhound Bus.
Once a student from a small village in Vermont
who had never left the state was on the bus,
accompanying a New Yorker friend.
As the city appeared, looking pretty much
as it does in the photo, the girl screamed.
Isn’t it odd that a photograph of a megalopolis of so many people, without lights and movement, looks so much like a still life or an abandoned movie set, or perhaps a forgotten child’s toy in the absence of such a commonplace thing as electricity?
Tom, its a neat image!.
Y’know what I’d REALLY like to see…night time satellite image. I have a few night images of all those lights…I think it would be incredibly cool to compare to The Great Blackout.
Try http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s2015.htm or google for “blackout+satellite+image”.
cheers,
Sonja
SONJA!!!
MAJOR BIG TYGGY KISS!
Here are a couple from Sonja’s link:
20 hours before the blackout:
7 hours after the blackout:
Tyghress
Here you go, a low-level satellite image of NYC at night. Doesn’t really show much, though:
http://www.darksky.org/images/satelite/nyc_night.gif
Here’s one from farther up - ditto.
Ohmygosh. For some reason, the before-&-after that is the most striking to me is Toronto. It’s, like, GONE.
Dale
This Tom Dowling’s photo is the first one I see of New York which impresses me since Andreas Feininger’s vintages. And this is some compliment. And in colour, too!
Bravo–fedora off–collègue!
As for the others (aerial) shots–ain’t they just… ridiculous? Blackout because of an OS… the term of “vapourware” now takes all its meaning.
Orwell’s completely gone, too.
WOW!!!
Personally, I think we should have more blackouts up there. I typically get 100+ spams a day at work, many of them arriving overnight. From the time of the blackout until about noon the following day I received exactly two spams. I could tell when power started getting back to normal up there because my spam shower also came back to normal.
Apparently, 99% of the worlds spam originates in Toronto or something. (BTW, our corporate e-mail and web were not otherwise affected during this time, so it was definitely a curtailment at the origin, not a blockage on the backbone).
John
My thanks to Dale for hosting that photo. When I sent it to him, I was not aware that it would be put on the Board. In any event, at about 6:40 on Thursday evening the only bright light emanating from Manhattan (with the exception of the buildings that had emergency generators) was that of the setting sun, reflected here off the southern face of the Empire State Building. I regret that some detail was lost in the process of making it ‘web friendly.’ If anyone would like the JPEG in the orig. (1600 X 1200 pixels/668 KB), let me know and I will e-mail it.
The City handled the blackout well, as did most places. We are, I think, more accepting of the disasters that we have a hand in–‘our’ messes. The walk home over the Brooklyn Bridge took an extra half hour and the 20 flight walk up to our abode was no pleasure. Other than that, we were unscathed. We watched thousands of pedestrians walking over the Brooklyn Bridge. The local Engine Company of the NYC Fire Department–which was honored by Dale on September 10 (or 11?), 2002–was in and out all night. By about 10:30 or so, it was just a very quiet and dark night in the City.
Be well,
Tom D.
The whole of Southern Ontario is gone! But who cares about Toronto 
SARIE 
I live right in the core of a city and with the blackout I got to finally see all the stars overhead that are wiped out by light pollution. Turn the electricity off every night at eleven would be my wish.
MarkB