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Seriously Forest bring up a good point, this is a setback to the economy - not as bad is it could have been, but there were billions lost.
I know my signups were down last night....
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Well, I just got power back at 1PM EST.. was out for 21 hours, and MANY of the surrounding communities are still without power, including the city of Detroit proper....
People RUSHED the stores.. within hours, there were NO batteries, NO flashlights, NO ice... ATM's did not work.. GAS Stations did not work.. people ran out of gas IN the gridlock on the way home ( obviously street signals were out also ) Cabella's ( a 25K sq foot store south of detroit) SOLD OUT of ALL flashlights, batteries, and generators within 3 hours of the blackout... it was a mess! LOL
Probably be a couple days before things even settle down, and gas stations are up and running again.. right now, those that are working look like they did in the 70's during the 'energy crisis'... lines for miles trying to get some gas...
Other than no internet, I could have given a shit.. was like camping as far as I was concerned! LOL
Originally posted by fatbaby@Aug 15 2003, 01:38 PM People RUSHED the stores.. within hours, there were NO batteries, NO flashlights, NO ice... ATM's did not work.. GAS Stations did not work.. people ran out of gas IN the gridlock on the way home ( obviously street signals were out also ) Cabella's ( a 25K sq foot store south of detroit) SOLD OUT of ALL flashlights, batteries, and generators within 3 hours of the blackout... it was a mess! LOL
Probably be a couple days before things even settle down, and gas stations are up and running again.. right now, those that are working look like they did in the 70's during the 'energy crisis'... lines for miles trying to get some gas...
So maybe whatever revenue was lost by some, was gained by others!
Alot of people couldn't spend money even if they found some place open and ready to take it. No power means credit card terminals and ATMs do not work. So unless you had walking around money in cash, you were screwed in the northeast yesterday even if you were worth millions.
US economy = $10 trillion per year. That's $27 billion per day.
60 million without power at the height. A lot gained power quite quickly. Estimate 1/3 of that 60 million was without power for 3 days (total average). That's 20 million * 3 = 60 million.
That would mean 60million/280million = 20% of US without power for a day.
Assume they contributed 0 to the GDP for that period. So that's about .2*$27 billion = $5.4 billion. My quicky guess. It's probably more than that because not only were the people w/o power not able to buy goods and services in or outside of their area, neither were people outside of the area able to buy goods and services within. So I'd double it. I'll take $11 billion.
Just got back from a 3-day roadtrip. Not going to estimate the error on that. ;-)
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