did niagra stop falling?

i always forget that there are worse consequences to blackouts than losing a quart of milk. like having all of the freezers and incubators in your lab shut down. fuck those hospital patients, i have experiments to run.

does anyone else find the following paragraph a bit strange?

At least three cities on the shore of Lake Erie -- Toledo, Cleveland and Erie, Pa. -- were among those hit. Erie is the hometown of Tom Ridge, the Homeland Security secretary.

thank you ny times fact filler.