The Night the Lights Went Out short eassy
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It was July 13, 1977, a hot, muggy night here in Manhattan. Lightning strikes set off a cascade of mechanical failures at Con Edison that plunged virtually the entire city into darkness.
Nine million people were without power. Thousands had to be rescued from the subway tunnels. And there was looting — lots of looting. A thousand fires were set, 1,600 stores were ransacked and 3,400 were arrested. The total economic damage was estimated at more than $300 million — well over a billion in 2017 dollars.
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One evening just as I was getting ready to watch a cartoon show on television, there was a power failure. The television set just went blank, the lights went off and the fan slowed down and stopped. As it was getting dark, I hoped that the power would be restored soon but it was not to be so.
Soon darkness enveloped the neighbourhood. We hastily lit candles so that we could find our way around the house. As we had only three candles, my mother sent me to the sundry shop nearby to buy more.
"Sorry, no more candles", was what the shopkeeper told me. The neighbours had bought up all the candles. At home, my father managed to dig out two kerosene lamps. We lit these too and kept the darkness out.
Without the fan running, it was oppressively warm. Furthermore, there was nothing to do but wait for the power to come on again. All of us sat quietly in the living- room. We had grown so dependent on electricity. Without it, we felt so uncomfortable. I used a book to fan myself.
Finally it was time for bed and still, there was no power. Nevertheless, I groped my way to my room, changed and lay quietly in the darkness. It felt so strange without the familiar lights around me. Anyhow, I fell asleep after a while.
The power came back on only at dawn. By then we did not need it anymore.
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Of all the inventions during the last two centuries, the invention of electricity has been the most wonderful and useful. Everywhere we find ourselves amid the various kinds of appliances based on electricity. But seldom do we realize how much we depend on it for the comfort of our daily life. This is because electricity is easily available to us. We realize the importance only when for a moment its stops working. I happened to realize its importance and power when in the month of July we had to go without electricity for a full day.
It was 7.30 p.m. when there was a power break-down following a heavy thunder-storm. It not only uprooted the electric poles but damaged the transformer which supplied electricity to our locality. We had to live in dark for the whole night. We reported to the exchange but the response was irritating than satisfying, as it would take twelve hours or so to regain the power supply.
We were to a great hardship. At night I could not study, though I tried to study in candle light but I found myself unable to concentrate. There was hardly a speck of light visible. The whole colony was enveloped in “eternal gloom”. It looked like the city of the dead. There was no activity in the market too with all the shops closed.
The next morning newspaper reported several cases of accidents and incidents of robbery in various parts of our locality. As in the absence of light, robbers had a golden chance to rob. In the absence of street light the fast moving vehicles collided and led to serious accidents. All the road crossings where automatic signals were installed went out of order.
In school we could hardly concentrate on our lessons. The time seemed to drag on forever while we perspired in the humid atmosphere. On account of electricity failure we missed the television lesson too. The power did not only cause inconvenience to students but to officers, factory owners and factory workers too. The house wives and cinema goers also suffered. Most of the factories had to close down and cinema halls had to postpone their shows.
When after about eighteen hours power supply was restored, I realized, how much we depend on this mysterious force of all machines and modern life.