Major power surge in NY? (Blackout is in NYC, Detroit, Ottawa and Toronto, per Fox News)

8-14-03 | Joe Hadenuf

[Joe Hadenuf]

Hannity station went dead for about 20 seconds. Said he had never seen anything like it.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Ve-l-l-l-l-y int-ah-resting....

[Dog]

My Governor James McGreevey has just declared a State of Emergency.

Why we have power??

[Cyber Liberty]

My wife sits right behind me in the same room and we both post here on FR, so fortunately I can post, panic, AND cling all at the same time!

That's how things work at the Cyber L household....

[Diddle E. Squat]

Dude, get a clue. The Feds have NOT said that it was definitively not terrorism. What they have said is that they have NO INDICATION of terrorism. A big difference, even if you fail to grasp that.

[Interesting Times]

I think everyone understands that you think this is probably terrorism.

But is there any need to repeat the same thing over and over on a live thread?

[Silas]

Amen about believing Bloomberg's predictable blather. Too many Freeper Sheeple. Where is the healthy mistrust of the government? Everyone should know that the cops/government lie to the public at times like this "for our own good".

[Joe Hadenuf]

CNN-State of Emergency Declared in New York,,,,,ENTIRE STATE NOW....

[DollyCali]

Among the tense that I recall was the reporting of Pvt Lynch..(which we didn't know at the time)

We were to get IMPT announcement from CENTCOM. We were all afraid/on hold/ for over an hour.

thought it might be Scott Spicher, Saddam dead..

so much tension..

remember that day? that tread? that time ?

[Dog]

New Jersey also..

[Ichneumon]

As you might expect the market closed and I still own almost 650 shares of Home Depot which I wanted to unload.

Look at the bright side: Home Depot stock may rise due to millions of people rushing out to buy generators, candles, batteries, radios, flashlights, etc.

[Fraulein]

News just reported that Bush and his team were able to determine it was not terrorism and that Bush plans to attend a fundraiser tonight as planned

[supercat]

What these dipstick Media types and politicos don't realize is the system worked!!!

Well, sort of. The safety shutoffs to prevent system damage probably worked, but I think there's supposed to be something to better localize outages; that didn't work.

[mewzilla]

Well, this little part of Upstate just got its power back, Southern Tier west of Binghamton. Binghamton was still out as of a few minutes ago. They're hurting units. So what's still out, anyone know? And what caused the outage?

[Silas]

Is it politically incorrect to talk about LOOTING and how scared sh*tless a lot of people are right now?

[Peach]

On ABC News: Specialist saying Homeland Security said terrorists threatened to affect electricity in August. Specialist is saying that three separate software packages designed to prevent this very thing have obviously failed.

Saying the truth of the matter is that Homeland Security is saying this didn't happen because of traditional terrorist measures, but it doesn't mean they didn't commit an act of cyber terror. On ABC NOW

[mhking]

OK. I'm finally settled in at home.

I've been bouncing back and forth between the four NYC network affiliates, Newsworld International (carrying CBC Newsworld), my Atlanta affiliates (who are all in local news), and the LA affiliates (who are all carrying network coverage).

The big concern I'm hearing from the NYC affiliates is tied to sundown coming in another hour and a half.

Apparently everything went up in smoke there while I was walking out to the car. I didn't notice any power blip here (Atlanta - not that I could while walking out of the office building), and once I got in the car, I heard Hannity talking about it at the end of his interview with Pete Wilson.

I talked to my sister up in Rochester, and she said that power flashed at about 3:30, and that power finally died shortly after 4.

[null and void]

No pool, no lights, no motor car. Not a single luxury ...

It was terrible, three days with nothing but food and water...

[appalachian_dweller]

ROTFL...again!!!

That's it. I have to stop by the video store and rent that move again.

[DollyCali]

speaking of sex...and potential virus?.

virus time?

I have had 5 attempts (blocked by Norton Internet Security ) of the Trojan back door sub - seven (or something similar) within the past hour.

Anyone else?

[Frank_Discussion]

Yeah, hurrah for sanity at last!