This week, we would like you to have some empathy, Melanie is a sour bitch, the bracket box doesn't age well, New York has a rough summer, a loose-locking nut causes problems, selective decisions are made to drop loads, a disaster leads to Christmas music in July, everybody gets high, and Melanie white-knights for God.
Content warnings: lightning strikes, power outage, looting related violence, labor and delivery under dangerous conditions, brief but upsetting mention of a baby who may have died at 46:15, fires, murder, gun violence.
Links:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/82367208/?terms=New%20York%20Blackout&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/145765089/?terms=New%20York%20Blackout&match=1
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/139803976/?terms=New%20York%20Blackout&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/119584243/?terms=New%20York%20Blackout&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/417204206/?terms=New%20York%20Blackout&match=1
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/825034797/?terms=New%20York%20Blackout&match=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977
https://medium.com/new-york-voice/the-real-story-of-the-new-york-city-blackout-of-1977-9fb8628e4e92
https://nypost.com/2017/06/03/the-mystery-behind-the-only-murder-during-the-1977-nyc-blackout/
https://time.com/3949986/1977-blackout-new-york-history/
https://nypost.com/2007/07/09/lights-out-for-suffering-city/
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,915331-1,00.html
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/disasters/blackouts-night_of_terror.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMBOsOfR4s&t=3040s
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/night-new-yorks-lights-went-out/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/07/13/the-1977-blackout-led-to-new-york-citys-tough-on-crime-politics/
https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/july-13-1977-nyc-blackout-adjourns-mets-cubs-game-for-two-months/#_edn9
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/the-superman-cinematographer-thought-he-was-responsible-for-the-blackout-of-1977
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/07/25/urban-league-chief-criticizes-carter/abbc2499-1654-481f-85dd-7a2318173acb/
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/twins-born-during-1977-nyc-blackout-look-back-at-history
https://allthatsinteresting.com/new-york-blackout-1977
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/13/nyregion/10-years-after-new-york-blackout-lessons-learned.html
https://nypost.com/2017/07/13/horror-stories-from-the-blackout-that-turned-brooklyn-into-a-battleground/
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/11/nyregion/court-attributes-blackout-of-77-to-negligence.html
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