pic: Blackout 2003
 

WOWH! thats cool

i had one of the whole world before

where did you get this pic?

Unfortunately the picture is fake. I read about it on another forum. The most noticable fact is the black area is darker than parts of the ocean. Secondly the blacked out area doesn't entirely match the blacked out area. Also according to the timestamp its a little after 11PM, at that time parts of the grid were already on, additionally it would be around dusk on the west coast at that time.

I uploaded 2 'real' images to the gallery but I'm not sure why there not there.

And at a quick glance, it looks like they missed LI, which, as far as I know, was still more than half out at 11 PM or so. I know I didn't get my power back till 1:30, whereas others got it back as soon as 7:30.

In any case, it still does look cool :p.

LI is out, you may be looking at cape cod and thinking that is LI

probably, as i said, it was a quick glance (i was running out the door to finish up my eagle project :p). in that case then, it's still wrong, as parts of LI did have power very soon after everything else died... :p

Regardless, it's still a fake. If you look at the real photos (I believe someone posted them in the gallery here) they look totally different.

I, too, believe this photo is fake, although really cool-looking. The land would normally be darker than the ocean, however; water reflects light much better than land. At 11:15 PM, though, that area wouldn't have been COMPLETELY blacked out.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=12346

for before and after pics

Actually this same phot appeared in TIMES magazine minus the time so either u alll are wrong or yet another journalist well actually it would be like a photgrapher or lay out person that lied this time but anywho it is still a cool pic whether it is real or not. Oh yeah I got to run to cauz I to am working on my eagle project ( landscaping my church)

Much of Pennsylvania still had power, with Philadelphia being most noticeable.

Not only all that but it reached farther west and it did hit parts of Canada...

a whole province of canada.. basically all of ontario.. with a few very very very small pockets

Parts of New York still had power....I happened to be in one at the time (Lake Placid).......

The editor also missed southeast Michigan. The photo is obviously a fake. If not for the land vs sea comparison, try land vs land. It should have looked about the same as northern Canada.

its definetly fake, as one of my teachers told me
it's a picture national geographic put out a few months ago, and apparently it took them months to compile the picture from hundreds of satilite photos.......plus yea, the other stuff u guys mentioned