Puzzle Description:

I heard this story when I was a kid. A little boy in New York picked up a snowball and threw it an electrical pole. Suddenly all the lights went out across the Eastern seaboard and into Canada. It was the worst power outage in the country's history. Of course the snowball had nothing to do with it, but it sure freaked the kid out!

#1: Jota (jota) on Jun 13, 2019

Thanks for your entry and story!

That poor kid is probably STILL freaked ... I know I'd be!

I remember during a big blackout in 1976, the next day everybody had a story of how they thought that they had caused it. Each person had been doing a different thing that was slightly related to electricity. Me personally, I had been playing around in the living room and I bumped a lamp and its wires. The lights in the room went out, and then I looked out the window and watched sections of Manhattan winking out, one area at a time. I saw the lights on the Empire State Building go out, which was very eerie. At first I thought that I had caused all that by bumping the lamp, but then I realized that it was bigger than me and not my fault, after all.

So maybe it's just how our minds work? Maybe everybody thinks blackouts are their fault.

Nice picture! While I was solving it I thought it was going to be a graveyard, with Buffy the Vampire Slayer driving a stake into a vampire. Evidently a very vertical and rectangular vampire, with a snowball stuck to it.

lol, Valerie. This is a cool picture.

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