photograph shows a satellite view of a blackout in eastern north america.   
photograph shows a satellite view of a blackout in eastern north america.   
north american blackout
this image has been circulated as a satellite photograph of the great blackout which struck the northeastern united states and canada on the afternoon of 14 august 2003 and lasted well into the next day, darkening many large north american cities (cleveland, detroit, toronto, ottawa, new york), as a photograph of the power outage which hit the storm-swept mid-atlantic region of the united states in late june 2012 and lasted for several days, and as a photograph of hurricane sandy, which hit the upper atlantic coast of the u.s. in october 2012:


































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none of those events produced a power outage produce nearly as total a zone of blackness as depicted in the image shown above. even in the great blackout of 2003, artificial light was still quite visible throughout many parts of the northeastern region, as shown in the photograph below:





































































genuine satellite images processed by the air force weather agency and available on the web site the national oceanic &amp; atmospheric administration (noaa) show the extent of the blacked-out area at 7 hours after the start of the 2003 blackout and a comparative shot 20 hours before the initial power failure.


































the original picture is a composite image of nighttime north america which someone has manipulated with an editing program to darken the northeastern area. reasons why this is obviously so include the following:





































































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photograph shows a satellite view of a north american power blackout?
this image has been circulated as a satellite photograph of the great blackout which struck the northeastern u.s. and canada on the afternoon of 14 august 2003. the original picture is a composite image of nighttime north america which someone has manipulated with an editing program to darken the area. even in thegreat blackout of 2003, artificial light was still quite visible throughout many parts ofthe northeastern region. genuine satellite images processed by the air force weather agency and available on a web site the national oceanic &amp; atmospheric administration (noaa)