Major Black out hits NE US Canada NY to Detroit

Robert McClelland · Aug 14, 2003, 04:28 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/pow...age/index.html
I have power I'm fine up here where I live.

tek · Aug 14, 2003, 04:29 PM

Watching the news on this right now, pretty f***ked up.

Jeff · Aug 14, 2003, 04:29 PM

Yup, my uncle was just telling me about it...

krazy1 · Aug 14, 2003, 04:32 PM

HOLY SMOKES!!..... Glad I am in Wi.......

~~craig588~~ · Aug 14, 2003, 04:55 PM

I live in CT. My new server I just got setup went down a little while ago. (its in NYC) Some people in CT I know have already lost power. Its slowly spreading, and they don't know why.

DallasStar · Aug 14, 2003, 04:58 PM

Skynet!!!

Necrosis · Aug 14, 2003, 08:40 PM

I've been without power since 4:10PM EST, and it just came back up about 15 minutes ago. I live in the middle of Ohio too.

tek · Aug 14, 2003, 08:45 PM

Sweet.

Me and the family are coming to Cleveland, Ohio to visit some friends for 4 days, you anywhere near that area Necrosis ?

Necrosis · Aug 14, 2003, 08:49 PM

Dude Cleveland is all out.

tek · Aug 14, 2003, 08:51 PM

Well I guess that explains why we couldn't reach them via phone

Judas · Aug 14, 2003, 09:16 PM

OK... this is a tad interesting... seing as my APC backup unit starting going beserk.... my interenet connection was fluctuating like crazy...... thing is... it all started around 4:15... 98% of saskatchewan produced power is sent east and south towards ontario and the US.....

Judas · Aug 14, 2003, 09:18 PM

this i find interesting:

Quote:

Cities affected included New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto and Ottawa, Canada.

i'm guessing that toronto and ottawa are 2 seperate countries?

demalion · Aug 14, 2003, 09:29 PM

All I had was a blip...so brief, my computer didn't even immediatly freeze (no UPS), though it ended up slowly falling to pieces. Quite a strange ocurrence, but apparently my part of CT was pretty lucky in the alternates available for the power grid.

Stormy · Aug 15, 2003, 01:19 AM

Toronto was so orderly.... Not that I'd know....

~~Mac Daddy~~ · Aug 15, 2003, 05:25 AM

Power back on around 4 am here ............

here
And here

Cereal Killer · Aug 15, 2003, 06:54 AM

Here in Mississauga, just west of Toronto, power came back on at 12:15am this morning!

I went for a drive last night and felt like I was driving in Europe on those dark side roads...

Officials are urging people to stay home today...you know what that means?

[SIZE=xx-large]LONG WEEKEND!!!![/size]

Rayder · Aug 15, 2003, 08:32 AM

My power came back on at about 6AM EST, at least that's when I woke up and noticed that it was on. Just got internet service back (about 9AM, we have DSL). It was probably on earlier, but I had to play with the router a little to get it to connect.

Luckily for me, I'm not spoiled by air-conditioning(read: don't have AC) to have been affected by a lack of power, except for a case of PC DT's

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My bro always has solar-panels charging gel-cell batteries, so we had TV all night, even if it was only a little 4inch LCD TV. We went out on the porch and let whoever was interested watch the news with us.

When power went out yesterday, I was out in my car, ended up not getting half the stuff that I wanted to do done.

I live in Cleveland. What I thought was stupid is the fact that we have 2 power plants less than 5 miles away, yet we had to be without power because of Niagra falls?!?

What a high quality power grid we have here in the Northeast, eh?

Hey Stormy, that avatar is hilarious.

Dom · Aug 15, 2003, 08:42 AM

After about a 14hr outage here in Ridgewood, NY all power is back.

This was the single greatest blackout in American history effecting over 50 million people. For hours about 80% of NY had no power, not to mention NJ, CT, OH, MI and south Canada.

~~Mac Daddy~~ · Aug 15, 2003, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Dom
After about a 14hr outage here in Ridgewood, NY all power is back. This was the single greatest blackout in American history effecting over 50 million people. For hours about 80% of NY had no power, not to mention NJ, CT, OH, MI and south Canada.

~~Mac Daddy~~ · Aug 15, 2003, 09:09 PM

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 15, 2003, 09:26 PM

i didnt know till about 7 pm yesterday I was working down at the Canadian National Exhibition under emergency lights, then on my radio i hear everything is SCREWED. i got power back 24.5 hrs later (5pm today) but spent the afternoon at my friends house like 20 mins away who had power and play some halo online

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 15, 2003, 09:34 PM

Yes Mac Daddy we are the Molson drinking, tinpot army american leechers lol
but it was fun though without power man! if you had a bunch of ppl and some music going from a boombox ud be safe or froma suped up car. too bad i wasnt wit my boys and instead listening to damn CBC radio till 3 am lol. im like damn, wuts going on DH?! lol

~~Mac Daddy~~ · Aug 16, 2003, 03:30 AM

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Originally posted by Rayder
I live in Cleveland. What I thought was stupid is the fact that we have 2 power plants less than 5 miles away, yet we had to be without power because of Niagra falls?!?

What a high quality power grid we have here in the Northeast, eh?

Watch it ....... the problem was NOT in NIAGRA FALLS

And as a matter of fact Rayder our hydro service in Ontario far exceeds that of Watertown, NY ... remember the Ice storm ???

Please keep your personal opinions to yourself ... THX

Judas · Aug 16, 2003, 03:34 AM

what i'm finding interesting is the blame game that's going on now.. it's utterly stupid...... an by the way....were getting alot of different stories.... according to the new just recently.... it said some kind of main line in cleveland is the center of attention as it could had...and most likely have done the ingnition of the chain reaction......

BWX · Aug 16, 2003, 04:40 AM

Yeah, the problem is with de-regulation and the privatization of the power companies. The equipment isn't up to the task of sending power from one place to the other- we had enough power the whole time, the system just didn't do what it was supposed to do to stop the domino affect when one part of the grid went out..

What I heard:

Niagra Mohawk (where I pay my electric bill) was bought out a couple years ago by an English company named (I believe) National Grid and about 800 people were fired, mostly maintenance people. They raised the rates (by up to 300% in some cases), then pocketed the money saved by firing all the maintenance employees. Deregulation was supposed to drop our power bills and make our power system more robust- yeah, that worked. This is a big problem that many people are to blame for, mostly our own inadequate government. This was a wake up call- We need to upgrade our antiquated electrical power grid.

Mostly an annoyance for me- the power went out, AC went off, it got really hot in here, so I went to sleep.
When I woke up, the power was back on. Actually the Niagra power plant never went off line and provided power to most of the people who had it when it did come back on. It's funny how everyone said it was a lightning strike at Niagra Falls at first- I live a few miles away- there was no lightning in the area, it was a clear blue sky- even the President of the US repeated this. Oh well, power came back on quick for me- for millions of people, the situation wasn't that good. The sad thing is that this whole thing was completely avoidable.