среда, 7 марта 2012 г.

Blackout victims get a feel for how truly powerless live

On Thursday, homeless people had unexpected company. FromNew York to Kalamazoo, millions of people were stranded by darkness--most of them caught so off guard they didn't have 50 cents in theirpockets to make a phone call.

In New York, some people spread their newspapers out on thesidewalk and slept. One family with small children sought refuge inan alley. Others bartered their material goods for a deli sandwich.And in one Canadian neighborhood, residents were so hot, they lefttheir apartments to sleep in a nearby park.

"I had never experienced anything that horrible before," ReneeMitchell-Williams told me. I was related to Mitchell-Williams by aformer …

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