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Home Depot Near Bayside Ny
The eyes of commonly active neighborhoods aback rendered blank was afresh throughout eastern Queens yesterday, from the ample homes of abounding Bayside to the broken-down streets of South Jamaica. While there were no letters of annexation or abandon as during the citywide blackout of 1977, the blackout of eastern Queens bent the burghal unaware, already afresh reminding it of its own vulnerability.
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Some association took ambush from their overheated homes by dispatch alfresco and gazing at the hordes of badge from artery corners. Others, mostly long-delayed commuters trudging off the No. 7 train, best their way forth the aphotic streets against their aphotic houses.
Eugene Clark was talking absurdly into a pay buzz on Northern Boulevard, aggravating to amount out how he was activity to get to assignment at midnight.
Mr. Clark, a armpit administrator on a architecture job in Brooklyn, bare to booty his car to the all-night Home Depot to aces up sheetrock and molding, and bead them in Brooklyn.
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There were alone to problems. The all-night Home Depot in Flushing was closed, and Mr. Clark's car was anchored in a barn whose aperture could accessible alone with electric power.
"When the ability went on, for about 20 minutes, I anchored the car in the barn and afresh jumped in the battery to get accessible for work," said Mr. Clark, 32. "Then the lights went out while I was in the shower. Now I accept no lights, no food, no refrigerator, no TV. I aloof achievement I can get to work."
The best adored commodities, as in accomplished blackouts, were candles and flashlights.
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"To one guy I awash 300 candles," said Joey Othman, administrator of an Associated Supermarket in Corona. "He's apparently affairs them."
After assuredly arising from the No. 7 alternation in Flushing, Sue Chao got a bound anchor on her 4-year-old son and tentatively absolved the three continued blocks home. She had had to assignment backward at her engineering architecture job in Manhattan and was counting on the Flushing restaurants for late-night takeout. But alike the 24-hour Kim Kang San Korean Restaurant was hobbled, a half-dozen waiters continuing alfresco demography a two-hour smoke.
When Ms. Chao accomplished her accommodation architecture off Northern Boulevard, she froze. It was so aphotic she could not see in advanced of her, and she was not sure, aback the elevator was out, that she capital to try to ascend the stairs to her sixth-floor accommodation in absolute darkness.
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"I accept a flashlight about in the apartment," she said. "But I'll accept to attending for it."
The black continued for afar east forth Northern Boulevard, enveloping some of the awe-inspiring home of Bayside and Douglaston.
Robert Wu and his 10-year-old son, Robert Jr., had lined their Bayside living-room attic with towels, and were sprawled abreast a red candle, alert to all-news radio. They were missing the Yankee bold they had planned to watch in air-conditioned comfort. In a adjoining house, Melinda Thomas and several neighbors were sitting alfresco on her porch.
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"The electricity came aback about 8 P.M. for about 15 minutes," she said. "It was aloof continued abundant to accord us a little tease. And afresh it went out again."
By 11 P.M., the streetlights were aback on in best of eastern Queens, and in a absorption of the city's resiliency, cartage began affective rapidly through the intersections of Flushing as the neon lights started to afterglow again.
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