In from Mr. New York, Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R.

Here's Joe Contcha.

It just sent me.

We were talking before we broke for news in the last hour about the Northeast blackout

of 2003 that happened on August 14th.

We're celebrating that anniversary, for lack of a better term. They need a word for when bad things happen. I can't say 9-11 anniversary. It's a horrible time. Anniversary has a positive connotation. We need another word for bad things that we're marking, and I don't know what that is. And you could call in 800, 321, 0710 because I can't just look up with something online using synonyms and the sources apparently but that's not the epiphany that I had. The epiphany was kids. And by the way, Joe Concha filling in for Mark Simone as the Voice of God just told you. I'm a media reporter for the Hill. Used to have a nice little show here on W-O-R. Good to be back on one of the oldest, if not the oldest station in New York. I have no idea who I was

working for, but I'm pretty sure it was, it is, I think, the oldest station right now in New York.

But anyway, Northeast Blackout, 2003, could you imagine, just close your eyes for a second,

unless you're driving, don't do that, that's bad, but let's say you're at home and you're listening i want you to close your eyes i want you to now think of that blackout happening 50 million

people out of power in the current environment we're in in 2020 and i have my eyes closed as well i swear to you

picture that blackout happening now and picture what would happen in New York City.

You think that those riots that happened in June were bad?

That was a picnic compared to what we would see.

And the funny thing is, if you recall, and go back and read about it, that blackout almost no crime, no spike, no looting, no nothing.

It wasn't like what happened back in

the 70s during a similar blackout. I was very young at the time, so I can't quite recall that

one, but I remember reading about it that it was pretty bad. I think we'd see the 70s version

times 10 before we would see the 2003 version, which was, I think at that point, we're under

Mayor Bloomberg, who basically extended the policies of Mayor Giuliani, and think at that point, we're under Mayor Bloomberg, who basically

extended the policies of Mayor Giuliani, and we had a nice, safe, clean city.

In other words, the exact opposite of what we have now.

Anyway, there was, speaking of riding, at least a mental one anyway, going on in one's head. That's the worst transition

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