People walk across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on August 14, 2003, after a blackout hit the city. #

People walk down the Brooklyn Bridge during a massive blackout on August 14, 2003, in New York City. #

Peter Abeles, a professor at Columbia University, directs traffic at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in New York during a power blackout on August 14, 2003. #

People stand in line and wait to use a payphone on Fifth Avenue in New York, during the blackout on August 14, 2003. #

New Yorkers have a drink outside Fiddler's Green on 48th Street while they wait for a way to get home during the power outage on August 14, 2003. #

Passengers wait inside a stranded New York City subway train on August 14, 2013. #

Transit workers escort riders off of a subway car, in background, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, on August 14, 2003. #

New York City police direct traffic on August 14, 2003. #

People sell beer on the street during the blackout in New York City on August 14, 2003. #

People line up to buy batteries for their flashlights at a hardware store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on August 14, 2003. #

Commuters walk up the entrance ramp to the Queensboro Bridge in New York, as a police officer directs traffic, on August 14, 2003. #

Commuters catch a ride in the back of a delivery truck as others walk up the entrance ramp to the Queensboro Bridge on August 14, 2003. #

Commuters walk over the Queensboro Bridge with traffic stopped in gridlock on August 14, 2003. #

People try to board the back of a crowded New York bus during the blackout on August 14, 2003. #

The Parliament Buildings of Ottawa, Canada's capital, sit in darkness during the massive blackout. #

The dark Manhattan skyline, seen from Queens, on August 15, 2003. #

Patrons continue to eat and drink at the Rink Bar at Rockefeller Center, in New York, shortly after nightfall on August 14, 2003. #

People move around Times Square without the convenience of electricity on August 14, 2003. #

People walk down the street with candles during the power outage in New York City on August 14, 2003. #

Cars try to navigate their way through New York City during the blackout on August 14, 2003. #

Commuters sleep on the steps of the Central Post Office in New York during the early hours of August 15, 2003, after being stranded following the city's blackout. #

People line up at a hot-dog cart on Yonge Street in Toronto on August 14, 2003. #

People lay stranded outside the Times Square Marriott in the early morning of August 15, 2003. #

A man sits on the sidewalk in a dark Times Square early on August 15, 2003. #

A man buys a newspaper outside of New York's Penn Station on August 15, 2003. #

Products in the dairy section that went unrefrigerated due to the blackout are marked to be thrown out at a grocery store in New York on August 15, 2003. #

New York residents congregated outside during the second day of the massive blackout. #

In the Soho neighborhood, a restaurant cook and his customers make the best of the massive power outage by setting up a barbecue on the street. #