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Even though it's just been a few days since the blackout, Gothamist has noticed that the favorite topic is "Where were you during the blackout?" It has sort of replaced "Where were you on September 11?" as a way to bond over a common event, and works well because it's less fraught than bringing up September 11, but still gives a chance to discuss September 11, and tends to have more comic potential ("Well, after walking down 23 flights in heels and getting wasted at a cafe, some guy came by with his Segway and let us have rides!" or "Sleeping on Grand Central's steps - not so fun.") .
Fray, which has volumes of personal stories on common topics, currently has some blackout threads: First, there is a blackout account by Dori Mondon. There are also additional blackout stories and opportunity for you to post your story.
Gothamist will wait to see if "What were you doing..." turns into so sort of pick-up line, but until then, we're still trying to catch up on our readers' accounts of their August 14 on our Blackout Edition.
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Have you noticed the increase in ads from NYC government advising residents to put together a "go bag? in case we all have to evacuate?
First - they're not sleeping on Grand Central's steps - that's the Main Post Office Bldg. behind Penn Station on Eighth Avenue! Second - did anyone do a story at the Bronx Zoo? (they've got electrified fences, gates, etc., as well as an important snake-venom facility which responds to emergencies) Would have been an interesting story!
The "blackout account" link is broken.
Thanks. Tien Mao has been watching my poor linking skills, so it's fixed now.
And The Mother, I KNEW that didn't look like Grand Central, but the AP caption. Bah!
I need to get together my go bag. And put spare sneakers in my office.
I saw my first "go bag" psa a couple of days before the blackout, which when remembering that during the blackout made me a wee bit paranoid.