A BIG SURPRISE

I was surprised to see how unprepared are American people in some simple situations. It was in the summer of 2003 (if I am right?) when the electricity had fallen down. It was a technical problem at the hydro-electric station at Buffalo.
First of all, it was a very unpleasant surprise for every driver. A lot of them got into car crashes. It was a very busy day for the firefighters.
Second of all, people got scared about water and food, so they started to stock them. All the open stores were taken with assault, people were pushing each-other to get first in the line and pay before have been evacuated.
Finally, more people than I could imagined had the worry on their faces. Everybody were panicked out. They gathered outside and were talking loud about what happens. There was not to long after September 11. But happily, the situation wasn't a terrorist one and it ended in two days.
The fact of being so unprepared and scared for a simple failure of the electricity let me speechless.