Huge Power Outage in eastern US and Canada

[Mr.Buffy]

Just heard that there is a huge power outage in eastern US and Canada. Cities like New York, Ottawa, Toronto, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, and more are out of power.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html

If you read the last sentence there..it says that the New York mayor recommends that everyone go home, open their windows and drink lots of fluids...

[ecstasy_civic]

ive been watching it on tv. thats fuckin insane!!!! ive never seen so many people or cars at one place.

[Mr.Buffy]

I heard that even cell phones aren't working...not sure though...

Imagine the streets...could easily be riots and looting

[5.9 R/T]

If this lasts into the night, wow, wouldn't want to be there.

I've been flipping between CNN and CTV and both are reporting completely different things. CNN claims that the outage was caused by a problem in Ottawa where they are reporting the problem started. CTV is reporting that the outage is caused by a fire in a NYC power plant that 'overloaded'. CNN makes no mention of the supposed fire, but they are reporting that one of NYC's plants performed an 'auto-shutdown' when the outage occured. Interresting...

[max_boost]

Just woke up and heard about it on the radio. That's pretty freaking crazy, the anarchy that can result!

[ecstasy_civic]

they said just now it was an over loaded plant that sht everything down

[Speed_Dreams]

So the possiblity of it being a terror attack was ruled out??

[rage2]

There is no fire. The smoke that ppl reported were the power plants shutting down their boilers. It emits a lot of black smoke when they shut those babies down.

[hash]

yah... pretty much. They claim it was the failure of some major power grid. But who knows...

[air_mikey]

AAAHHHH this shit sucks!! i just bought a calling card to call my gf in china but i cant use it now cuz theres no power in ontario :banghead:

[EstoMax]

how r u posting this msg then?

[air_mikey]

im in calgary, when i use the calling card it goes to ontario then to china.

[EstoMax]

ah.. ok

[Redlyne_mr2]

The east is beat..can't say Im surprised...I work for DaimlerChrysler so we shut things down early today because everything is based out of Michigan/Ontario

[fast95pony]

Seven hours later,and officials are still arguing about what caused the blackout ....

It's the Canadian's fault !!
No , it's the American's fault !

Too funny.....

[Speed_Dreams]

Originally posted by fast95pony
Seven hours later,and officials are still arguing about what caused the blackout ....

It's the Canadian's fault !!
No , it's the American's fault !

Too funny.....


Blam it on the french!!!!

[Khyron]

Just saw on the National that they now say it was a power overload from a lightning strike on the american side of Niagra.

Khyron

[gongSHOW]

i'm suprised that there haven't been any major robberies yet, atleast thats what they said on the news. Wouldn't all the security systems all be out, the policeman patrolling the streets can only go so far.

[Davetronz]

At work we tend to watch/listen to TV, and this was on ALL day (we were watching CNN cus I hadnt seen the news in the last couple days).
I cant believe how many times it was emphasized that it was NOTHING TO DO WITH TERRORISM...

[ninjak84]

cnn just reported looting and vandalism in newyork, and other major cities

the source of the power outage is 2 failed nuclear power plants in the usa

[nismodrifter]

you guys are ALL wrong.....I was right there when the lightning strike happened at the Niagara power station on the american side. I just happened to be taking a picture at the exact moment when the lightning struck the power station

:D :D

[5.9 R/T]

That isn't lightning, thats a laser beam from one of bush's missile defense satelites!

[nismodrifter]

hahahahahahahh :rofl:

[mwmhong]

Originally posted by nismodrifter
you guys are ALL wrong.....I was right there when the lightning strike happened at the Niagara power station on the american side. I just happened to be taking a picture at the exact moment when the lightning struck the power station


LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!

[K271]

Dam!! I'm so glad now that I'm up we have power again! Let me tell you all, in NYC, it was fucked up! We had street fights outside a store cause people were looting. My friend and I had to fight for the last slice of pizza and bag of chips at the pizzeria. It was dark as shit, kind of scary to see the entire city without lights, and when one can see stars from NYC at night, there is something wrong. And the worst?? It was so dam hot, so humid. No air conditioning. It was pretty messed up, I was here for 9/11 and this was in a way, sort of the same, people didn't really know what was happening, no food, cold beer. But things are better now, power is slowly getting back. i'll give the real news that CNN doesn't report, the street news. I saw these guys with bats come out of a car because they were pushed around in a store and didn't get respect so they wanted to give respect... that's how the huge street fight started. When I saw the bats, I was outta there. Guys with bats doesn't bring back good memories.

The reason was some power grid from Niagara went up, too much juice sucked from it.

[treg50]

It was pretty surreal. Out of a movie or something. No electricity anywhere for huge distances. Cell networks went down or had problems. Gas stations couldn't pump gas (no power). Traffic lights didn't work anywhere. Streets were jammed with cars. Subways lost power whereever they were.

Power came back on for me around 4 AM. The light in my hallway woke me up.

One good thing: the stars were visible for once where I'm at. Besides the damn heat.... oh and stupid-asses not knowing how to treat a major intersection with no traffic lights..... I didn't mind the power outage.

[Altezza]

I say it was a coverup for a weapons test :D

[)v(ortal]

ahah my dad was out on a tripp for westjet... and he said it was just hell cuz he had to get 7 planes unloaded of ppl and bags... 7 planes in totall and 150+ ppl on there....he was working for 20hrs he said ahahha "it was hell"

-danny

[hyperwhite]

i am from niagara falls ontario canada aka GROUND ZERO

1-there was no lightning stike there was no clouds at all it's 100 freaking degrees down here

2-We have roming blackouts now and 200,000 skitzoids roming around.

3-my cell barely works ,the banks are closed, we have no water presure cause the hydro dams are using most of it and gas has shot up $.10 to $.30 a liter

4-it's 1,000,000 freaking degreess

[K271]

Only thing not working NYC is the subway and they don't expect that til tomorrow. Even 14 hours without A/C is too many hours without it. Sucks for the tourists who slept on the pavement over night. I feel for you.

[Fluidic]

Check this picture out guys... pretty eerie!!

[mwmhong]

Originally posted by Fluidic Digital
Check this picture out guys... pretty eerie!!

That is very eerie. How did you get that high to take that picture? :eek:

[EstoMax]

Originally posted by mwmhong


That is very eerie. How did you get that high to take that picture? :eek:
his lookin at buying an slk32, i bet he won the lottery and isnt telling us :rofl:. His backyard prolly folds up and a space shuttle station is built in there, last night he took it for a spin.

max

[Fluidic]

I found the picture on the Internet -- lol!

[Si1ent_A5sa5sin]

Yea, my friend (well... acquantince from Counter Strike...) lives in Ontario.. and he had to go to the hospital where his mom works just to use the comps and be in light...

one the way home he and his mother saw a man get hit by a car doing like 10Kph...

Steve R

[/////AMG]

:eek: that was crazy, is all the power back up now or what?
nice find peter on that pic, crazy

[redec]

that pic is photoshopped....I have the original lying around here somewhere...it's a sweet pic....montreal/quebec/atlantic canada didn't lose power :)

[D'z Nutz]

Yeah, here's the original:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020810.html

I wonder if they did get a shot without the power though.

[K271]

Everything is back and up here. Ontario may be a little slower because it takes time to start up the nuclear power plants. NYC bought surplus power from Quebec.