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Lights Out for Big Ben
Mar. 29th, 2009 12:08 pmSince Kevin and I were staying home last night, I suggested we switch off everything for Earth Hour. I wanted to see what we would do for an hour without TV, computers or music; and I wanted to see what London looked like from our eleventh floor windows (I was hoping/assuming that many lights would go out.)
London didn't look that much different. Some of the buildings in Canary Wharf were dark, apart from the airplane warning lights on their roofs. Big Ben and the House of Parliament are beyond our field of vision so we couldn't enjoy their switch off. I had no idea the BT tower was participating so I forgot to check.
We stayed in the bedroom for most of the time, listening to a hand crank powered radio that Kevin got as a present from his father. Suzi Quatro's radio show on BBC2, where she interviewed one of Blondie's members and played classic rock. I was reminded of the ice storm that hit Montreal in 1998 and plunged the city into darkness for nearly a week. Nine months later, baby boom...
London didn't look that much different. Some of the buildings in Canary Wharf were dark, apart from the airplane warning lights on their roofs. Big Ben and the House of Parliament are beyond our field of vision so we couldn't enjoy their switch off. I had no idea the BT tower was participating so I forgot to check.
We stayed in the bedroom for most of the time, listening to a hand crank powered radio that Kevin got as a present from his father. Suzi Quatro's radio show on BBC2, where she interviewed one of Blondie's members and played classic rock. I was reminded of the ice storm that hit Montreal in 1998 and plunged the city into darkness for nearly a week. Nine months later, baby boom...
