(em)powering the powerless: the 2008 storm and outage of Yellow Springs, Ohio
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Uploaded by justvee on Dec 25, 2008
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"For the first time in history on Sunday afternoon, Yellow Springs got walloped by a hurricane. Remnants of Hurricane Ike unleashed record winds and left the village without... electrical power for more than 40 hours."
—Yellow Springs News
[On Monday morning] Emporium owner Kurt Miyazaki... dragged some tables outside, fired up the stoves and began boiling water. By about 7:30 a.m. they had several thermoses filled with coffee and chai.
—Yellow Springs News
The power stayed out, into the next day and through it. There were rumors it wouldnt be up until Friday. It came back this (Tuesday) afternoon.... Those that didnt on Monday dont even want to think about going into their fridges.
—YSeye
a video by Vanessa Query and Olivia Byrnes
©2008 Vicarious Evolution Entertainment
music by The Beta Band
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@GibsonAndVega ....a 65 unit apt. building in Xenia, was without power for 6 days 3 story, elderly,disabled tenants, no hallway lights, no elevator, people taking insulin by candlelight, pitchblack in the whole building no help from mngment, when a former cop and a city councilman accidently discovered what was going on, only then was help sent. The mayor at the time, came out and remarked that she didnt even know the place was there.
Red cross even refused to come out n help.
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people get hurt during hurricanes, destroys homes. who is she?? I agree if she is not into Yellow Springs than she should, as they say, tally ho. this one has seen much of the rest of the world , i would guess, and if she has, she has not gained much from it. people helping people is what counts and Yellow Springs has an abundance of that.
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What a snarky twit. The villagers did not freak out, they helped each other out, made the best of it, and were cheerful and pleasant. If you don't like YS, leave.
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I'm glad somebody did some filming of this. I was on Kelleys Island the day of the storm and drove home through the aftermath the next day. I kept thinking I should get out my video camera and post something on Youtube, but like most people I was busy with "getting by" without electricity. Oh, and "three hours"? Our electricity was off for five days!
GibsonAndVega 3 years ago 3
I was in Columbus when this happened. It enjoyed the feeling of comradery that it inspired, and how I got to know people better. I enjoyed watching this video and thought it was very well done. Thank you for making this.
Cr8Joi 2 years ago