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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 2003
Page
1
Appalachian League action opens as Bluefield travels to Danville while rental car options and best deals highlight travel planning for attendees.
A vast power blackout swept across the northern United States and southern Canada, forcing millions outside as subways halted in New York. The event, described as the largest U.S. blackout, disrupted daily life and triggered extensive coverage across the paper.
Federal agencies including the FBI and Homeland Security said there was no evidence of terrorism or criminal action in the widespread blackout affecting the eastern United States and Canada. President Bush pledged a quick, thorough federal response.
Bluefield suffered a local outage during an early evening blackout affecting Nature's Air-Conditioned City. Police say calls surged with Lt. Tony Buzzo noting the volume at 7 40 p m as residents reacted to the disruption. A Captain D's drive through sign shows a 'Closed due to blackout' notice.
Area residents faced a Thursday evening outage when about 800 American Electric Power customers lost power. Buck Lucado of the Hot Stop on Bland Street reported his outage began at 6 20 p m and he secured his shop by 8 10 p m while attending to cleanup tasks.
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