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[03:45.62]In July 1977,there was a repeat performance which produced varying degrees of chaos throughout the city of eight million people.
[03:56.80]In 1965,the failure occurred in the cool autumn and at a time of comparative prosperity.
[04:04.53]In 1977,the disaster was much more serious because it came when unemployment was high and the city was suffering from one of its worst heat waves.
[04:17.20]In 1965,there was little crime or looting during the darkness,and fewer than a hundred people were arrested.
[04:25.80]In 1977,hundreds of stores were broken into and looted.
[04:31.05]Looters smashed shop windows and helped themselves to jewelry,clothes or television sets.
[04:37.63]Nearly 4,000 people were arrested but far more disappeared into the darkness of the night.
[04:44.29]The number of policemen available was quite inadequate and they wisely restrained themselves from using their guns against robbers,
[04:52.28]who far outnumbered them and included armed men.
[04:57.09]Hospitals had to treat hundreds of people cut by glass from shop window.
[05:02.84]Banks and most businesses remained closed the next day.
[05:08.40]The black_out started at 9:30 p.m.,when lightening hit and knocked out vital cables.
[05:15.04]Many stores were thus caught by surprise.
[05:18.64]The vast majority of New Yorkers,however,were not involved in looting.
[05:23.29]They helped strangers,distributed candles and batteries,and tried to survive in a horrible world without traffic lights,
[05:31.15]refrigerators,elevators,water and electrical power.
[05:36.61]For twenty_four hours,New York realized how helpless it was without electricity.
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