On a very hot evening last week, a summer storm knocked out high-voltage power lines in the New York suburbs and within the hour returned 9 million people to the dark. The city became very quiet and hot. For a night and a day, nothing worked except telephones, transistor radios … Subways ran dead. Elevators did not work. Water pumps failed, and with them sinks, tubs, and toilets. Streetlights and spotlights went out. And in the ghettos, the thieves and burners were soon in the street. They tore off the protective metal grills, broke shop windows and started fires. More than 2000 stores were pillaged.
(Taken from Bahasa Inggris, Materi PTBK Buku 2)
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