Power outage photo: whoa.

[icarus]

There may have been a slight problem with the power on the east coast:



Photo courtesy of Frank Puddin Yost.


Annnnd ... it turns out this is a hoax.

Comments

[queenbarwench]

That is a very cool photo!

[icarus]

It is, but it's apparently a hoax. And the hoax has been around since 2003. :D

[icarus]

Here's an accurate one: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78445

(should update the post....)

[everbright]

That's a pic from the 2003 blackout (I thought it looked a little northerly for the current one.....)

http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/03_Global/03_Global_pics/030902.8-14.blackout.jpg

Still, ugh.

No, wait! According to snopes it was a hoax back then! You want to talk about internet hoaxes that Will Not Die.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/space/blackout.asp

[icarus]

LOL!

I feel like humming... "there's a suck-er born every minute...."