ENERGY BLOGGER LYNN KIESLING will be on Greta Van Susteren’s show on Fox tonight (10 p.m. Eastern) to talk about the blackout.

Vish Subramanian emails:

Do you find it shocking that 2 years after 9/11, a power outage causes a complete breakdown of transport in NY. Even BUSES were down? Plus NO cell phone access?

Well, I heard cellphone service was intermittent. But, yeah, there ought to be ways to keep traffic flowing, and cellphones should be at least as reliable as landline service now — they’re past the point of being luxuries and toys, and are actually more important in an emergency.

And Jeff Jarvis reports:

Well, this apparently isn’t an act of terrorism. But it certainly demonstrated to bad guys how easy it would be to bring down the Northeast of America.

It doesn’t look like we learned a lot on September 11. The evacuation of New York is a frigging mess — worse than it was then.

Let’s learn something, this time. Okay? Especially as this isn’t really an “evacuation” — just a bunch of people trying to get home from work without power.