Twenty years ago today, a massive blackout left 50 million North Americans without power. Veteran SooToday reporter David Helwig looks back on the local impact
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.
Constable Bolduc became the poster-boy for what SooToday readers overwhelmingly voted the biggest news story of 2003.
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