Power Outage??

[freshie]

Damn,

outages in New York... radio stations down and ****?? Who Else??

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

....."uhhhhhh is this thing on?"........





......."testing 1, 2, 3"..........



........... "uhhhhh testing".........

[freshie]

Someone gimme some news?? Northeast Powergrid is down??

[-=[Dg]=-]

1 linky (http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/14/power_030814)
2 linky (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3280647)
bleh... there are lots more, but no real details yet.
Everythings fine and spiffy out here in L.A.
Wait.... was that a quake!? (http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/)

[Mayor_McCheese]

Yeah I live near Albany. Power was turning on and off for a while. I saw on the news that at least all of NYS was out of power. but now I can UT again! :D :beer: :beer: :beer:

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

well is it back on yet?

[freshie]

Phone lines are back up it seems. I'm able to call out my office. But still do I want to go down to a hot-ass city that has no subway systems to get home. Shhhhhiiiiit.

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

yeah sounds like its gonna suck for you if they dont get that workin hella soon......... damn terrorists cuttin oyur power and stuff :p

[freshie]

well is it back on yet?

Don't think so. The buidling I'm in has a generator, that's why I'm able to use internet. But I think the city is still down.

Funny enough, I here Detroit is down. They like to light their city on Fire when they win a basketball championship. ****, Detroit could burn tonite.

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

lol Im just imagining all the looting and rioting thats gonna happen in about 30 secs :D



damn terrorists :moon:

[Kindness]

Excerpted from Major power outage hits New York, other large cities (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html), CNN, Posted: 5:23 PM EDT (2123 GMT), Thursday, August 14, 2003
Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m.

State officials said the Niagara-Mohawk power grid was overloaded. The grid provides power for New York and stretches into Canada. The officials said the outage is a natural occurrence and not related to terrorism. ...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed the outage was not related to terrorism or an accident.

"The good news is, Con Ed's facilities have shut down automatically, which they're programmed to do," he said. "No damage was done to the Con-Ed facility."

Bloomberg said it was unknown how long the outage may last.

Thousands of people could be seen leaving buildings and walking into the streets. New York subways were reported stopped and people were trapped in the cars.

"We are going to have a situation where people are going to have to walk a long distance. They need to be careful," Bloomberg said. "Our advice is to go home, open up your windows, drink a lot of liquids." :dunno:

[Kindness]

Excerpted from Carroll: Thousands walking the streets (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/otsc.carroll/index.html), CNN, Thursday, August 14, 2003 Posted: 5:28 PM EDT (2128 GMT)
CNN anchor Kyra Phillips talked with CNN correspondent Jason Carroll, who was in the New York bureau when the electricity went out. ...

CARROLL: ... I can tell you just from looking out my window here on the 21st floor, down on the streets of Manhattan -- ... thousands of people out on the street there coming out of buildings. ...

It is quite a scene to look out the window and see what it a busy time anyway during rush hour and to see, again, literally thousands of people wandering the streets.

Everyone is probably asking the same question, Why did the power go out, and when is it likely that it will come back on? :moreconf:

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

:D <---- doesnt live back east

[Kindness]

Bloomberg just reported that he had just got off the phone with the chairman of the board at Con-Ed: power's coming back now ... may take a few hours to get service back for most people ...

[[pepe]]

Glad you okay Freshie, I am so proud of New Yorkers. so well behaved, we've be looting the crap out of fry's by now. anyway I posted another thread in whatever section just wishing you guys well.
You guys rock!!!

[RedMag*]

lol thats crazy.. they said the power will be on in 3 houres from now
that's what ive heard... the night is approaching..:)

man i need a new sound system... hehe

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

go get it redmag!

free stuff for everyone :D

[freshie]

lol thats crazy.. they said the power will be on in 3 houres from now
that's what ive heard... the night is approaching..:)

man i need a new sound system... hehe

I've heard all the retailers are shutting down. Damn, i wanted to pick up a copy of Lionheart as well.

[{chey}UN*REAL]

lol thats crazy.. they said the power will be on in 3 houres from now
that's what ive heard... the night is approaching..:)

man i need a new sound system... hehe



*ROGER* *ON MY WAY*



LOL :rockon:

[RedMag*]

let's all meat at Radioshack at 8pm
befor the power comes back.. ok? :D

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

just point me in the direction of Fry's :D

[ARSENiC]

let's all meat at Radioshack at 8pm
befor the power comes back.. ok? :D

what is "meating" ? ewwwww... don't tell me

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

/me kicks arse in the shin

[Kindness]

Listening to the news, they were saying that in the last major power outage, many customers didn't have service restored for as many as 25 hours. Yeek! Something to do with the extensive procedures necessary for safely starting up nuclear and coal fired generation plants once they've been shutdown. Detriot's power company is telling local businesses to take a three day weekend while they get things back on-line.

[ShirleyFT]

My power just came back on (hopefully it will stay on).

Oops. As I was typing just had a brown out - thank God for my UPS's. Things are still a bit funny here.

Yes, for the first 2 hours everybody was losing their minds, "It's a terrorist attack". One woman came up to me and told me there was a blood red moon last night - a bad omen. Hmmm. Whatever.

The stores closed, couldn't get food or beer. A friend of mine came over. He managed to get his motorcycle through the traffic. He was looking for beer too. It was a minor disaster.

[freshie]

My power just came back on (hopefully it will stay on).

Oops. As I was typing just had a brown out - thank God for my UPS's. Things are still a bit funny here.

Yes, for the first 2 hours everybody was losing their minds, "It's a terrorist attack". One woman came up to me and told me there was a blood red moon last night - a bad omen. Hmmm. Whatever.

The stores closed, couldn't get food or beer. A friend of mine came over. He managed to get his motorcycle through the traffic. He was looking for beer too. It was a minor disaster.

The guy I was working with at Bear was like "Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago all have power down. It's a terrorist attack!"

Still at the office. Back-up generator still running. Air Condition, lights and computer access make it not so bad. Still, boring as hell.

Parts of Jersey and The Bronx are back up. Parts of Jersey coming up as well.

[SloththeShovel]

My power was off a few days ago... I sat here for a few hours. Sweated. Power came back on. Then I yelled and threw some rocks. Just for practice in case the whole Tampa Bay area goes down. You guys should be UP soon.

[freshie]

Man, I've just spent like 4 hours in front of television. It's amazing, like whenever this **** happens in New York, I just end up sitting in front of my television of my television and watching it.

[ShirleyFT]

Some weird reports were coming in all day. One said people were trapped in the subways. One said the Con Ed substation on 14 st. was burning. Chaos!

[Ghost_of_War]

Heh, that's why I live in Iowa... nice and safe. Unless of course you're a Muslim exchange student or accidentally step on a running PTO. :p

[ShirleyFT]

Well, a strange day is getting stranger. Nobody seems to know how this blackout happened. Canada is blaming the US and visa versa. Stories of lightning hitting the Niagra plant, of a fire at a Nuclear Power plant in Pennsylvania and denials for all of them.

Nobody knows how the largest blackout in US history happened. It's a mystery.

[Precedent]

Nobody knows how the largest blackout in US history happened. It's a mystery.

Couple of proletarian theories on this: One, think about what may have happened today somewhere in the world that your government doesn't want the press to tell you about. Diversion may sound crude or simple but it remains an extremely effective tactic for controlling populations.

Two, consider that Southern Company, the largest regional electricity provider in the US and a hefty player on the republican side of the line, has been proposing for awhile now that big brother let them expand their operations to manage electricity distribution nationwide. Pork anyone?

[Kindness]

CBS was reporting that the last massive power outage occurred on the West Coast in August 1996 and was due to sagging power lines in Oregon/Northern California.

What appears to be the biggest casualty of this whole thing is the perception that such East Coast incidents were no longer possible after the 1965 and 1977 outages.

Seemed like Bloomberg and Pataki handled it fairly well. It's never dull in New York!

[ShirleyFT]

Another thing happened tonight. People could see the stars. Without all the light pollution that's usually there, the stars can be seen like never (recent history) before. :)

[Precedent]

Another thing happened tonight. People could see the stars. Without all the light pollution that's usually there, the stars can be seen like never (recent history) before. :)

Mars was visible here last night, it's a red beauty :)

[outdoor]

how did u guys survive without air conditioning there?? :D





did u say u saw mars precedent? hehe u must be drunk. :beer:

[ShirleyFT]

Well, the lights are slowly coming on and the Sun is coming up and the night was fairly peaceful. I'm so glad people didn't go nuts like in '77 and destroy the place. Way to go New York! :cool:

[freshie]

Funny, some of the traders are beggining to filter in here. The markets look like they might actually open. Hopefully my girlfriend will pick me up by 9:00 am or so. I'm so non-essential here right now.

[Spiff]

I heard it was caused by fires at a power station near the Canada border, and that Canada itself was affected too (looting was involved apparently)

When i say "i heard" i mean i watched it on the news, plus i was bearly awake at the time...

Couple of proletarian theories on this: One, think about what may have happened today somewhere in the world that your government doesn't want the press to tell you about. Diversion may sound crude or simple but it remains an extremely effective tactic for controlling populations.

Always with the conspiracies, those americans are a crazy bunch :D

[Mirror]

It was great playing UT without the extra thousand players lagging the servers :D

[Spiff]

lol, theres always a silver lining...

[BOOBS]

Bloomberg just reported that he had just got off the phone with the chairman of the board at Con-Ed: power's coming back now ... may take a few hours to get service back for most people ...

12 hours later its back

[BOOBS]

how did u guys survive without air conditioning there?? :D





did u say u saw mars precedent? hehe u must be drunk. :beer:

No AC was not east. I am in the Bronx and all those other NY people got lucky, my power out till 8:15 this morning. 16 hours no power, at least I go to clean out my frig once and for all.

[Kindness]

It could be some time before the cause is fully identified and why the cascade wasn't stopped sooner.Excerpt from Investigators Eye Midwest in Power Outage; Investigators of Massive Power Outage Look to Midwest As Starting Point of Blackout (http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030815_1009.html), The Associated Press, Aug. 15
The largest power blackout in American history prompted new calls Friday for overhauling the nation's electricity system. ...

... more than 100 power plants including 22 nuclear reactors in the United States and Canada were shut down, and the blackout affected 50 million people over a 9,300-square-mile area from New England to Michigan. ...

The investigation is focusing on "the Lake Erie Loop," a massive transmission system that goes through New York state south of the Great Lakes to Detroit and then up through Canada, down by Niagara Falls, back to New York ...

At one point, 300 megawatts of power were traveling east on the loop and suddenly reversed direction, resulting in an estimated 500 megawatts suddenly moving west ... . It was uncertain what caused the sudden shift. ...

... a private company that monitors the grid said its technology showed the problem started in Michigan. "That was the epicenter," insisted David Trungale, vice president of SoftSwitching Technologies Inc., of Middleton, Wis.

One reason it may be so difficult to pinpoint the cause is the speed in which the cascading outages raced across the Northeast and Ohio Valley as well as southeastern Canada.

Trungale said his company's monitoring stations recorded a power disruption in Connecticut only 2 seconds after the first problem was recorded in Michigan. He declined to describe the Michigan site further. ...

The blackout brought to the surface the problems plaguing what many view as an antiquated electricity transmission system.

It is a system where a single failure can reverberate throughout and set off a catastrophic chain reaction like Thursday's, even with the relatively moderate summer heat and humidity of that day.

"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World electricity grid," said former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, now governor of New Mexico.

After the 1965 blackout hit the Northeast, the industry sought to put in safeguards that would isolate future transmission problems. In some cases this worked.

[j.lu]

**** mama, my power just went on at 9:15 PM. thats 29 hours!!!!! what a long night and day.

[freshie]

**** mama, my power just went on at 9:15 PM. thats 29 hours!!!!! what a long night and day.

Damn, that's a long time without air conditiong in the sweltering east village.

I had power when the girlfriend and myself made it back to queens at 2pm today. We were lucky enough to find a cabbie who drove us all the way out there.

[Zinia]

Another reason to love the great country of Texas. :D

http://slate.msn.com/id/2087133/

[1_LoSt_TaLiBaN]

texas sux.............. need I say more

[Zinia]

Someone hear something?

Nah? k