Ironically, my piss ant, bass-ackwards, small town is just beyond the eastern most edge of this massive blackout that has sacked towns from Detroit, MI to Fairfield County, CT to Toronto, Canada. My parents have no power and they’re only 5 or 6 miles away. There are Metro-North trains that I would ordinarily be on that have been stranded between stations for hours. Radio and TV stations are off the air all over western CT and parts of NY. New York City has people clogging the streets as they walk out of MTA terminals, leaving stuck subway trains behind. As near as I can tell this is the first mass blackout since some time in the late 70’s but my mother likens this to the “blackout of 1965” – either way it’s a major outage and I still have power… scary.