The Blackout of ’65 Left 800K Trapped in NYC Subway – 6 Hours Later People Were …

In November of 1965 a great blackout spread across the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. 30 million people were affected and Lynn Lowin was one of them. Now in her senior years, she wanted to finally tell her inspiring tale from 61 years ago, so reached out to Good News Network. During that power blackout, more than 800,000 riders were trapped in the subway—including Lynn. Here’s her report: “Traveling by subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan, the train suddenly stopped and all the lights went out. I remember thinking I was going to be late for my orthodontist appointment if they didn’t fix it quickly. I had no way of knowing that this was no ordinary power outage; it was massive. There is a ‘third rail’ in a subway system that can be very dangerous if anyone should step on it, so none of us wanted to leave our subway car and take the risk of sudden death. Even if we knew which rail was the third one, we weren’t able to see in the darkness that surrounded us. As the hours went by, we began to feel almost at home with the people in our subway car. People began
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