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.

[prairiebreeze]

Hitlery is on CNN

Aack! Can you flush out your eyes?

Prairie

[Peach]

Hillary not sure why the first hot day would create this kind of reaction. People are just trying to get home and take care of each other. There will be plenty of time to figure out what happened and how to prevent it.

Reporter asked if her first reaction was it's terrorism. She says she didn't want to jump to that but it clearly crossed her mind. But she had young people she works with to take care of. (I'm gagging here).

By the way, Hillary sounds very unlike herself - not her usual demeanor and speaking like the poor white trash she should be.

[sushiman]

> Windsor

Home of The Wildweeds !

[Dane]

John Gibson on Fox stating that power is on in Dayton and Cinci.

[Trust but Verify]

Sorry if I offended, but the victim card is one of liberals' favorites and it gets on my nerves.

[Semper911]

Do subway cars have self-powered (battery) intercoms and emergency lighting? What about tunnels?

Sure they have tunnels. Just ask the rats.

[MEG33]

Those were intense days in the situation room!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Kentucky? Are you sure?

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Thank You!

This is what I'm on about!

I don't want this to be terrorism, but it certainly is irresponsible and mind-boggling that the government could come out within minutes and completely deny any possibility of it.

That's just insane.

You cannot rule out terrorism or sabotage of some kind. I understand they don't want people to panic, but truth is truth and it's decietful and irresponsible after 9/11 to simply try to rule out any possibility of terrorism within moments after it's happened.

I know enough about the power grid to know they couldn't possibly have determined the cause within minutes. They might know where the failure occured, but that doesn't mean sabotage of some kind wasn't the cause of the failure at that point (or points).

[Old Sarge]

All we've heard is re-statements of the initial FOX blurb. I've got radio and phone contact with first-responders, and they're wanting to know if they need to roll.

So far, there's been nothing at the local level, except for what FReepers are reporting...

[CELTICGAEL (Celt)]

Fox has now taken cinci and dayton off of the list.

[Dianna]

Fox says power out in Cincinnati? Power on here in Deer Park. Nothing mentioned on WLW.

I'm in Northern Kentucky and my Cincinnati tv stations are still working.

[Benrand]

Steve McCroskey: Get me someone who won't crack under pressure!

Johnny: How about Mister Rogers?

[Peach]

Ditto your comment about Hillary. Anything she touches she makes worse.

[John Lenin]

The enviro-whackos are already blaming the power companies of a conspiracy by asking, who benefits ?

[Trust but Verify]

No, I'm listening to experts. I have a couple right here in my family. It's completely plausible that there was a domino effect.

[ninenot]

You gotta run a lot of pumps at a nuke. They consume electricity. Control panels are electric

[null and void]

Puh-leeze. Allow me to rebut this statement of yours. First, you cannot be serious. the Shiites in Iraq, who can't even get their power UP can take an entire power grid DOWN? Second, are the Paki's in cahoots with these Shiites, or were they operating separately, but coincidentally on the exact same plot? Also, since these two were, in fact, arrested, how did they carry out their brilliant plan? By remote control from jail?

Time will tell. The Gov't may not.

BTW where did I say the SeaTac rubes were the whole plot? Where did I say we caught all the terrorists headed for a major pahhhtyyyy in NYC?

Sure hope I'm wrong wrong wrong wrong, though...

[Monty22]

If it starts going out in other grids..