Quite true, Jeri. Lots and lots of cooperative behaviour was shown. Unfortunately, relatively a lot of rowdiness too. On a hot summer night though, it was much more comfortable to be outside than inside a building which is designed to use A/C and doesn't have it.

By the way, we in Ontario shouldn't have been surprised by this occurrence. We've been warned about impending power shortages all summer. The problem is Ontario went overboard building nukes in the 60's through 80's, was up to I believe 60% nuclear generation at one point, but those plants are all aging now. They represent a huge debtload (there's even a line on our hydro bills for 'debt retirement'), and several of them are offline for overhauls, which all take longer and cost more than expected. The current provincial government has done dick-all to encourage conservation or alternative power development, all they've done is restructure the utilities to no apparent advantage to consumers. Echoes of California.   All the northeast needs is to combine these supply problems with a faulty grid--and i don't know, are any of the affected states faced with the same kinds of supply problems?--and a high-demand hot summer day...bingo. Right at rush hour.