PORT ANGELES — For two small groups of North Olympic Peninsula residents, the blackout in New York was not something happening thousands of miles away to unknown people — they were in Gotham were there waiting for power to be restored.
As Port Angeles resident Wendy Drake and her 10-year-old twin daughters, Chelsea and Emily, drove down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Aug. 14, they wondered why so many people were out on the streets.
“I knew New York was a big city, but I was shocked to see so many people,” Drake said. “We kept seeing strange things but just thought, ‘Oh, this is just New York.”‘
The power outage left more than 50 million people without power for about 29 hours starting at about 4 p.m. Aug. 14.
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The rest of the story appears in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.
