The Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster

by Stephen Doheny-Farina

Book Overview

In January 1998 a massive ice storm descended on New York, New England, and eastern Canada. It crushed power grids from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic, forcing thousands of people into public shelters and leaving millions of others in their homes without electricity. In this riveting book Stephen Doheny-Farina presents an insider's account of these events, describing the destruction of the electric network in his own village and the emergence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300089775
• ISBN13: 9780300089776
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"