It was ABB's link between Connecticut and Long Island that allowed Long Island to get power back hours before Manhattan did after the August 2003 blackout.

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Of course, given our impending storm, it is worth mentioning that the Blizzard of the Century came in early 1978, right before the end of the Snake year of 1977, which also saw the Great Blackout and Son of Sam hysteria.

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At 6:30 p.m. a train from Shinjuku station, one of the busiest in Tokyo, was packed with people rushing home before a possible blackout.

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