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10. I was in that, too. There was radio; I guess the stations had their emergency power.

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Thu Nov 5, 2015, 11:41 PM

Nov 2015

Everyone had transistor radios back in those days, so it was like listening to a Collapse of Civilization broadcast. I went out into the cold November night and walked around our neighborhood, experiencing the weirdness all alone.

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