Junior Brian Walker and dozens of other band members from Southfield High were unaffected by the blackout of 2003.
That’s because they were at band camp in Hale, Mich., where they had full power and water.
“But we were told to contact our parents,” Walker said.
For those students who were in town, there were a variety of responses to the blackout.
Junior Marlo Hightower said that she was scared that it was a terrorist act and didn’t quite know what to do.
Sophomore Ramona McClendon said, “ I just thought that my refrigerator went out, but when I realized what happened, I was heated.”
Senior Eric Duncan said that he found out that pizza and scrambled eggs are good grilled.
Freshman Landon Wallace made a holiday out of the blackout: “It was fun because I could light fireworks.”
The three-day power outage hit Aug. 14 , leaving approximately 50 million people without electricity. Eight U.S states and parts of eastern Canada were affected.