OK, found a real cool site for blackout stories

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here's the link

here's an excerpt--I'm posting this for the folks in the cities who are waffling on the stay/go deal. check this out: highlights / summer of '77 "Within minutess, ordinary people who had been sitting on stoops turned into raging mobs in one neighborhood after another, from Tremont Avenue in the Bronx to Jamaica, Queens. They looted hundreds of stores, carting off anything they could grab with two hands. They set fires. For the devastated Bushwick section of Brooklyn, this was but a prelude to weeks of repeated arson. The craziness was so widespread that 4,000 people were arrested in the blackout, which lasted 25 hours(<---only 25!!!) in some areas. It was a summer when it truly looked as though New York might have had it."

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), November 12, 1999

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My uncle had a furniture store on Jerome Avenue, they looted it, cleaned it out to the walls, but didn't burn it. So, his insurance company wouldn't pay. They said that if they'd burned him out after looting him, he would have been covered.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), November 12, 1999.

We used to have a somewhat flippant "answer" for all of the painfully honest reports we received from insured's who told us "no visible damage" when filing comprehensive claims-"break a window and call us back..." Has everyone reviewed their insurance policies lately? (and no, I do not mean: "yeah, I got one. It's right where I left it-stuffed in that portafile with all the other papers...") If we somehow muddle through at less than a Apocalyptic level, you may need to know where you stand. Have you checked the replacement cost of your dwelling? Is your homeowner insurance at a level at least equivalent to this amount? If you have received a specific Y2k rider, do you remember exactly what it says? Forgive me for this, if it is redundant.

-- chairborne commando (what-me-worry@armageddon.com), November 12, 1999.

Awesome link Zoggy, thanks. Just add to a '77 New York City outage about 1 million extra people there in the streets for the ball drop....frightening....terrifying....scenario. Can one even imagine a day after..?

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), November 12, 1999.

About this thread and those looters, Paul Davis has this to say

And nary a one of them [doomers] will consider that this event happened at the end of a long recession, which started with the oil embargo more than 5 years earlier. People were madder than all get out, wages had stuck, inflation was up and jobs were scarcer than hen's teeth.

Of course, none of that would contribute to a feeling of 'nothing to lose', now would it.

And you might note that the people who did the looting felt remorse and returned most of the stuff within a week.

But none of that will have any significance to a doomer.

http://stand77.com/wwwboard/messages/4088.html

-- is (this@guy.serious?), November 13, 1999.


You may also want to check out this thread on the debunker site from someone who was there: http://stand77.com/wwwboardessages/4090.html

link

Yes, it is on the debunker's site, but I think it addresses this issue.

-- Lurking on the sidelines (Alw@ys lurking.com), November 13, 1999.



They never returned my uncle's furniture.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), November 13, 1999.

http://stand77.com/wwwboard/messages/4090.html link

is the site.

-- Lurking on the sidelines-HTML Challenged (Alw@ys lurking.com), November 13, 1999.


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