An interesting article from 1977. One for the Paraffinpunk subgenre perhaps:
'Your television picture shrinks to a disappearing dot. Lights flicker out. Motors groan and die. The family huddles in the eerie quiet. It's a blackout. And despite all the myths about the siple joys of candlelit living, it's just about as romantic as drought.
'Nine million New Yorkers saw little that was joyous in the power failure that struck the city and adjacent Westchester County last July [1977]. Several freak lightening strikes during a severe thunderstorm triggered a series of power shutdowns in the Consolidated Edison system that brought the country's largest metropolis to a dark standstill.' (Popular Mechanics article).
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