Where were you at this hour on August 14, 2003?

EDITOR'S NOTE: A version of this article originally appeared on Aug. 14, 2015. It is being republished here to mark the 20th anniversary of the great North American blackout.

I always thought the question was stupid, but I made the requisite phone calls and learned absolutely nothing. The screaming alarms on our backup batteries soon became as annoying as the incessant demands of "why is the power off?"The elevator at 123 March obviously wasn't operating, so I took the stairs to street level and proceeded west.

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