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		mturmon on Oct 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fog Creek is about to go down I live in California, so I know what you mean (s/weather/earthquake/). People were forgetting about events like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965 Humans have a hard time reasoning about events on decadal time scales.

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