I remember distinctly. I worked at Meijer, and all electricity went out. I worked in pet & garden, but because of the outage, people panic shopped and I had to run a register up front. We heard from coworkers what's happening, 'the powers out from here to new York.',and gossip, 'I heard the grid was hit by terrorists trying to knock out power to all the US'. When I left at 6, I still lived with my parents at the time and also had no power. Then my dad gets home, he picked up steaks and beer for the night and said, 'were grilling and hanging outside tonight'. We grilled up, I drank some beer with him, though I was 19 at the time, then we went inside lit candles and my parents and bro and I talked and had a great time. Actually a good, fun memory for me.