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Message:: [QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 68175, member: 78"]Hi,  I remember the blackout of 77. I was living on the 13th floor. I thought about staying but then the thought of climbing 13 floors to get water was overwhelming.I climbed down with a small overnight bag and walked over to the heliport on 14th street. A friend was a pilot and he said they were taking people over to Fire Island.I went, stayed a few days. When I got back I was told my apartment was flooded since the stupid person on the 14th floor opened all of the faucets trying to get water and left them open. When the water came back on his faucets were left open. The water cascaded down and flooded the 13th, 12th and 11th floor. I went up the elevator and expected the worse since my apartment was underneath his.Went in NOT a drop of water. It seems my ceiling was separated from his floor by a concrete floor. The water went down on either side of my apartment. The worst thought I had was to go window shopping with a brick. I was living down in the financial district and it was a ghost town after 5 PM. All of the jewelry stores were there. I figured a brick through the windows, no alarms I could make a great deal of money. I did not follow that plan, darn it. Nothing was touched downtown. People were too lazy to walk down there.greg[/QUOTE]