Post #48298 by Nui Nui 2 on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 4:08 PM

I just got back to So Cal from a long week in NYC.I was in the MET with my two small kids when the power went out. We were staying with in-laws in Jersey City. We walked for about six hours from one end of Manhattan to the other to get a ferry but when we got there we were told there were no ferries so we walked back across town to the Lincoln tunnel where we got a bus to the Meadowlands where they were dumping people off. Then got on another bus, then anotherbus took us to Penn Station in Newark where we finally put all our money together and got a taxi to Jersey City about seven hours later. It was quite an experience, but unless you were there or have lived in NYC you can't really understand the enormity of the whole thing. When we got back to California people here said oh yeah there was some sort of blackout or something, huh. We were earlier up on top of the Empire State Building, so I consider myself pretty lucky, I wouldn't have wanted to carry my four year old down 86 flights of stairs. What an end to a crazy week in a great city.