Power Outage

[=HOUDINI=]

Well at work today the black out happened. This sucked big time since I work near downtown cleveland. Ever try to leave a major city with out traffic lights? No fun

Anyways Voorhees and I are the lucky 10% that currently just got our power turned back on. We're west cleveland btw


For any others of you in the dark, do what I did, I slept thru it LOL

Voorhees what happened to ya, thought you were gonna come over and sit in the dark with me.

[Ritsuzen]

Sounds Romantic

[=LionHeart=]

um gross? LOL

[[BiA] DarkAngel]

Im in UPSTATE NY and I was assed out man.. No power all night- I went and slept overnight at my Parents house with my son.. We had a blast- My Mom and Dad made it fun like when I was little.. The perks of being an only child and my son being the only Grandchild..LOL...

[|AoD| Voorhees]

Power Outage

Originally posted by DXII =Ritsuzen=
Sounds Romantic

Hey now! LoL


NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES

Aug. 15 — The largest blackout in North American history slowly receded early Friday, with power returning in fits and starts throughout the Northeast and Midwest and eastern Canada. Officials on both sides of the border were struggling to understand what had caused the power system to fail, and more importantly, why the disruption spread so rapidly and across such a wide area, cutting electricity to as many as 50 million people.

NO TERRORISM, HACKING SEEN
Officials of the Homeland Security Department said there were no indications that terrorists were responsible for the blackout. The CERT Coordination Center, an Internet security clearinghouse, said it also did not appear to be related to the W32/Blaster worm or other recent computer intruder activity.
Investigators concentrated on transmission lines and transformers in search of what might have caused the surge in power that triggered safety mechanisms and shut off the flow of power from New England to Michigan.
There were indications the blackout may have been triggered not in upstate New York or Canada, as many have speculated, but somewhere along Lake Erie in Ohio, according to the industry-sponsored group that monitors the transmission system.
“That’s where the information is starting to point,” Ellen Vancko, a spokeswoman for the North American Electric Reliability Council, said in an interview. “It looks like that’s where the collapse started.”
Earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s office had alternatively blamed the failure on an outage at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant or a fire or lightning strike at a power plant near Niagara Falls in New York state for starting the rolling blackout. The National Weather Service said there was no lightning within hundreds of miles of the Niagara area, and American officials were skeptical of the Canadian claim.
“Such speculation is uninformed and premature,” said William Edwards, president of Niagara Mohawk. He said his utility reported no equipment damage and that power losses in the Niagara system were mostly from “safety mechanisms built into our system” to prevent damage. “It’s going to take time for experts to analyze the data and determine the cause.”
Federal and state agencies, as well as congressional committees, are expected to investigate the blackout and try to determine why measures put in place to isolate grids and keep power disruptions from spreading failed to do so.
“We’re the world’s greatest superpower, but we have a Third World electricity grid,” said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, energy secretary during the Clinton administration.

[Bertie]

...Maybe someone somewhere forgot to flick a switch

[|BoB| Sgt.Savard]

Originally posted by ThunderBalls
...Maybe someone somewhere forgot to flick a switch

lol

[ThaOne]

i was in the dark to but thax good my car has 4 tvs and ac i only had to find food but the chinesse takeout place was open so i was ight watching jason takes matt. on tv and the people of brooklyn nyc try rob banks and breck store windows
and a new sony labtop landed on my lap some how owell

[Bertie]

I bet Mr Bush wishes he could have blamed it on the terrorists.... And then he could have gone storming into Iran, or Libya.

[|AoD| ChicaGo]

Originally posted by ThunderBalls
I bet Mr Bush wishes he could have blamed it on the terrorists.... And then he could have gone storming into Iran, or Libya.

Can't forget syria