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NOAA satellite shows effects of power blackout.

By Les, on 15 August, 2003

Now this is pretty cool. A before and after satellite pic of the area affected by the power outage.

10 comments to NOAA satellite shows effects of power blackout.

Scott

15 August, 2003 at 10:38 PM

Definitely a cool photo.
Rachel-G

15 August, 2003 at 11:04 PM

Way cool photo! Thanks for sharing the link.
Mild Bill

16 August, 2003 at 7:08 AM

Very cool. It almost makes DC and Baltimore look like they were affected, though I heard they were not. Les I theorized that this entire blackout was orchestrated to shut your site down…NY, Ohio, and Canada where incidental and just distractions. How do we know you weren’t taken to Guantanamo for “re-education”??? I’ll be carefully scrutinizing your posts for any evidence of your reprogramming by the nefarious minions of Bush!!

I can
jay

16 August, 2003 at 8:33 AM

I can see my house! oh, no, wait… I can’t.
Etan

16 August, 2003 at 6:55 PM

Where’d you find that photo? It’s awesome.
Eric

22 August, 2003 at 10:37 AM

This looks to be a somewhat bogus side-by-side – notice that Philly and Washington are also dimmer the next night, even though they were not affected by the blackout at all.
matt

25 August, 2003 at 3:38 PM

definitely bogus photos…look at the water and the entire right side of the photo. photoshop or the gimp at work here.
Les

25 August, 2003 at 5:47 PM

Try again boys, Snopes.com say’s they’re real. Though there is a fake photo going around (also at the above link).
bludongle

28 August, 2003 at 3:41 PM

The reason the cities look different is the effect of cloud cover that occured over DC and such later that evening. It dims the reception of the satellite photo.
skyguy

20 September, 2003 at 7:12 AM

satellite photo is a fake. It must have be a touched up photo that was taken on a clear night. There were no optical-band satellites over the US that night.