Did any local event 'rock' your part of the world? For instance ...

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I (and my motorhome) spent a summer in Alaska and engaged locals, especially old-timers, in conversation whenever I could. I quickly learned that they 'dated' happenings as 'before the earthquake (1964)' and a 'after the 'quake' or before the gold rush (1896 - ) and after. In other words, it was an important event that changed their part of the world.

People in New York City (and maybe the whole country) think in terms of 'before' and 'after' 9/11. People in Newtown, CT no doubt view 2012 and Sandy Hook the same. The 1947 UFO event changed the little town of Roswell NM forever.

Any single event that changed your area?
 

Funny you should ask. Normally everything runs smoothly, but yesterday

My local area suffered a HUGE power blockage which went on for HOURS and wasn't corrected until
2 AM ! EVERYTHING was tied up. THINK what everything in your home uses electricity ! No TV, internet, ice cream melting in the freezer, no lights etc.

Even the traffic signals were affected, tying up traffic. Even reading was next to impossible. Wouldn't even take a walk in the dark. REALLY
about the only thing one could do was to go to sleep (Which I finally did)

I had a thought; If my wife were still alive and we were younger; There'd be no problem whatsoever.

Anyway, I don't want to go through that again.
 
9/11 would be mine...those buildings were familiar to us,my hubby worked just down the street and he was a building superintendent.
What I always found sad was we heard all about FDNY(and I'm by no means trivializing them,my cousin was in there)NYPD,Kantor Fitzgerald but there was little if any mention of the window washers,the cleaning people,the maintenance people...just a thought,IMHO
 

NE Ohio.

It could be the Kent State shootings. I was a student there at the time. But frankly the significance didn't really set in until years later.

If you're talking about a time that residents used as a marker (before/after), it would probably be when the manufacturing companies first started to move production out of the area, to the South. It happened about the same time large numbers of factory workers began retiring, because so many started working at the beginning of WWII. Many retirees sold their houses and moved south also. That's when housing prices also plummeted. When the rust belt first started to rust... Mid Seventies.
 
Summerfest ( a huge music festival & carnival ) happens every year in downtown Milwaukee by the Lake Front. It turns the city upside down . They keep making the event bigger and bigger .... and the parking stays the same. You couldn't pay me to go within 10 miles of that place in their 10 day run.
 
there were many things "worldwide" that had a great impact but locally the one that had the greatest and which could well have been far greater was when I was living in seattle and mount st. helens erupted.
 
Deucemoi said:
there were many things "worldwide" that had a great impact but locally the one that had the greatest and which could well have been far greater was when I was living in seattle and mount st. helens erupted.
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Great example. I saw the Mount St. Helens area about 1995 and was amazed at the enormity of the damage.
 
The "Blizzard of '77 here in Buffalo,NY put us on the national news radar for a week.The snow wasn't the culprit,it was the winds coming off Lake Erie,bone chilling temps. The National Guard was brought in to help.
We now have new weather technology with 'Doppler Radar',but the local so called 'weather experts' still can't predict the forecast in winter most of the time. Sue
 
moviequeen1 said:
The "Blizzard of '77 here in Buffalo,NY put us on the national news radar for a week.The snow wasn't the culprit,it was the winds coming off Lake Erie,bone chilling temps. The National Guard was brought in to help.
We now have new weather technology with 'Doppler Radar',but the local so called 'weather experts' still can't predict the forecast in winter most of the time. Sue
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January 1977 was laying in a hospital bed after a construction accident shattered my knee. Feeling sorry for myself, knowing I would be off work for quite a while. Wife and two very young daughters at home. Then, the television began showing Buffalo and the blizzard. At least took my mind off my own difficulties.
 
It took me 50 years to realize I was making my own bad karma. One bad decision after another. I have had so many big events happen in my life, it will probably take another lifetime to pay off my Karma. Just when I start to understand karma, it's almost time to check out and start another life. I must have been a real dink in my previous life, to have been born in this one. Please God, give me the sense to learn karma while I'm young next time.
 
We had Snowmageddon here in 2010. People are still talking about it. We've barely had any serious snow since then.
 

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