dear American and Canadian firends

pls be advised that you will be in the thoughts of the right thinking members of the other countries of the world at this point in this. in light of terrorist activity, this must have been a very traumatic event; but,fortunately, it seems to be due to a plain old fault somewhere along the line.

God Bless

-- Ian (ib@vertifgo.com), August 15, 2003

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-- Ian (ib@vertifgo.com), August 15, 2003.

Power blackouts are very common in many countries, as much as daily, but they regain power because of backup abilities. Calling this a traumatic event must be a joke. Perhaps the thoughts of right thinking members of other countries of the world should be with people who struggle daily without electricity, and if a few hours of this seem to be so much trouble, you could imagine how it feels to live like this daily, and I have a huge amount of experience in that area. This is indeed a perfect oppertunity to think about people across the world who struggle to live everyday because of the lack or electricity. We are so much used to this life, we are too busy to think about that. I hope everyone could imagine now how a lot of people live their daily lives. Perhaps these "thought provoking" incidents are necessary in God's mind, because it makes us realize how some of our brothers and sisters live, while we don't even have the time to think about it.

-- Abraham T (lijothengil@yahoo.com), August 15, 2003.

abraham,

before you start telling us to suck up a little discomfort you might consider that the power has been out for quite some time in NEW YORK CITY. a large city like that is not designed to be able to survive for long times with no power. furthermore, its the middle of the summer and new york can be very hot, meaning it is likely that some elderly may die of heat stroke or exaustion... power failure in such an immense city can be as deadly as if new york had never had power in the first place.

-- paul (dontsendmemail@notanaddress.com), August 15, 2003.

You quite misunderstood me there Paul. I am one of the people who suffered, and knows how bad this is. I was taking this oppertunity to say that we have to think about a majority of people who live like this, even in worse conditions. Now that we have experienced how bad it is, we could consider those people in our minds. I was just saying that if we understand how bad this is, we could imagine how worse it is for a lot of people. Shouldn't we keep them in our minds?

-- Abraham T (lijothengil@yahoo.com), August 15, 2003.

I agree with both paul and Abraham. NYC is not equipped to deal with this issue and people may die, this IS a tragedy. Still, Abraham is right in saying that it's times like these that help us to think about others in the world, in a way we might not have--given our usual living situation in the Western world.

Being an American, I am spoiled like everyone else...not rich at all by US standards, but extremely rich compared to other countries. One time when we moved, we got to our apartment two days before our furniture. Having no money for a hotel, nor anyone else to stay with, we slept on the bare floor with no pillows or blankets. At first, I was wondering how I would ever get through the night but then I thought...what if I were outside...in the rain, in the dark, in the woods, and lost and cold. I thought, if I were in that situation and someone came along and found me and offered a place for me to sleep inside, on a dry, warm floor, wouldn't I be extremely grateful? Of course. That helped me to get through the night and to better understand others in the world who DO sleep in the dirt or outside every night. Every time we Americans can get a small taste of what people go through in the rest of the world, it certainly doesn't hurt.

Still, our family will pray for the victims of this outage for grace, protection, and health to all who are affected by this possibly life-threatening tragedy.

John, you are also right about how this incident highlights our security inadequacies. Scary, isn't it?

-- Victoria (tecdork99@pvfnet.com), August 15, 2003.

be advised, that power cuts are a normal way of life. but ask yourself this, never in the history of mankind has so many powrer cuts happend in so many countries around the world, at the same time.i stongly feel that we are been watched and something is going to happen soon that will totaly shock the world. people from other places see that we are on the verge of destroying ourselves, and with the nuclear tech we have it could be devestating to the balance of certain parts of space. we will be stopped before we get the chance.on that you can trust me. thank you from joseph.

-- joseph alimbriad (joethecatus@yahoo.com), September 29, 2003.