Blackout 2003: Perspectives from Watson School students

[Amy Caudy]

During the Blackout I was visiting CSHL and I went down to the Barbara McClintock Building but I couldn't open the door and suddenly we realized that there was no power and so we decided to go to the bar and somebody went to their car and they heard that the entire coast was out. Well, a few days earlier when I was leaving St. Louis to visit Cold Spring, I was walking by an ATM and something had possessed me to take out some cash. So I got out 80 dollars. Well, I was so popular because the ATM was not working in Grace and there was no way to continue the celebration of the Blackout without a bit of money. Then it also happened that their had been a lab party the day before the blackout so we had left over food that had not been cooked so we fired up a gas grill and enjoyed ourselves.