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/pow...age/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

[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