🧵 I’ll never forget this day. I was going into my senior year in high school. I was in a guitar lesson at the Music Castle on Woodward Ave in Royal Oak, MI. The power went out - we thought it was people across the street setting up for the Woodward Dream Cruise….
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My instructor finished my lesson acoustically, we walked out of the little studio and I overheard the owner of the shop listening to @WWJ950 on a battery-powered radio. The anchor said there were reports of power out along the entire east coast….
I had the car, so I had to go pick my mom up at work - about 2 miles away from where I was. It took me an hour and a half to travel a mile on Woodward Avenue. Traffic was gridlocked. It felt so ominous….
Keep in mind, this was almost 2 years after 9/11. Terrorism was still fresh in all of our minds. I remember my dad saying he kept looking over his shoulder on the ride home expecting to see a mushroom cloud. The moment he told me that is burned in my mind.
We spent the next few days in a dark house, only the fridge powered by a generator. My neighbors had a giant RV in their driveway - we spent some time there watching the news. We were all thirsting for information - it was one of those times that drew me to this job.
In the end everything was fine. Our worst fears never came true.
But I’ll never forget this experience.
But I’ll never forget this experience.
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