We lost our power at 4 :14 Pm. I was at the supermarket checking out and the power went off. thank God that I did not gone earlier , otherwise we would have had some spoiled food. We live 20 miles north of NYC, when we got into the car our news station was operating on battery power and I found out that the whole Northeast was blacked out. First thing I thought was it was a terrorist attack.. they are still not sure though what it was. I tried to use the cell phone to call Dw because she was coming home from NYC from our DS's a doctor's appt. I could not get a signal. She was already home when I turned into the driveway. We just listened to the radio, talked and is got dark we BBq'd on the deck.. We had candles on the deck and the house. Iit was very relaxing. Then 5 minutes ago the power came back on.

). I would've given anything to have had a grill back then so I could've bbq'd.