I had three hours' warning for the last big blackout,' he told me.
Then, when he was all done, there was nothing else to do except sit back and start wondering about that big blackout.
Some recommendations have been incorporated in the administration's energy bill, which has taken on new urgency since the nation suffered its biggest blackout this month.
Will the public again have to sue the vice president, this time to learn what caused the big blackout?
The trigger for North America's biggest blackout is not yet known.
"Lina, where were you when the big blackout came?"
In the wake of 9/11 and the last big blackout, this strike became a test of civic solidarity.
The power pool was formed after the big blackout of 1965, which plunged much of the Northeast into darkness.
That afternoon his band, the Pharmacists, had just started to set up when the biggest blackout in American history began.
Today is the first anniversary of the biggest blackout in North American history.