If you can't stand the heat, imagine how bad it will be when the blackout hits

That's right folks, we (people who live in NYC) have devoted so much time to straddling our high-horses making fun of those LA shit-heads and now look where we are: the midst of a heatwave with energy consumption so high we are likely looking at a blackout. Now before you state the obvious (that I am clearly wasting energy by typing a stupid entry on a cosmically meaningless blog) you should know that I am using the computer for my job edifying young people. So there. I digress. Just recently there was a major power outage in Queens and it took a week and a half for Consolidated Edison of New York to fix it. You will notice that I did not call it "Con Ed," because "Con Ed" is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and Consolidated Edison of New York is no friend of mine. Anyway, despite the envy with which Chuck Klosterman (the man Gawker and I believe Sarah Steele love to hate) refers to people who were in NYC when the blackout of 2003 happened (envy based mainly on the highly publicized reports of store owners giving away ice cream and cold beer), let's consider the following:
No A/C, no fans-- that'll be fun in a 105 degree heat index tomorrow
No subway-- yeah, we all complain about the MTA, but do you really want to walk home? We all remember the transit strike.
No entry to electrical gates-- even if you get home, will your building open? Mine won't.
No internet-- this speaks for itself.

Anyway, there would probably be some sweet looting though. Remember, looting isn't nearly as bad as this: