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Major power surge in NY? (Blackout is in NYC, Detroit, Ottawa and Toronto, per Fox News)
8-14-03
| Joe Hadenuf
Posted on 08/14/2003 1:14:13 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
Hannity station went dead for about 20 seconds. Said he had never seen anything like it.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Canada; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Michigan; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Ohio
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To: rwt60
Hasn't there been speculation that a terrorist attack might involve a cyber attack against key infrastructure?This has been my suspicion since 4:30 today. If it is true, we might never know the truth. Why give al-qaeda the "credit?"
2,841
posted on
08/14/2003 8:20:39 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: PennsylvaniaMom
"
No really...the shelves in the paper aisles are bare...and even at its worst, during blizzards, we have never been w/o power or the ability to get to a road for more than 24 hours...and the White Cloud on hand is usually more than sufficient!"
Sorry... I think you missed my point. ;0)
2,842
posted on
08/14/2003 8:20:42 PM PDT
by
cibco
(Xin Loi... Saddam)
To: prairiebreeze
Philly local news is saying that the philly area dodge the blackout because when it happened .. in 2 seconds it triggered a breaker and we disconnected from NY
2,843
posted on
08/14/2003 8:20:55 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
To: hole_n_one
There was just Fox News Alert that said there was serious looting going on in Ottawa..........who'd a thought.....Canadians.
To: hole_n_one
Interesting caption under Paula. She's starting to look peeved.
Prairie
2,845
posted on
08/14/2003 8:21:11 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Middle East terrorists to the world: " We don't want no STINKING PEACE!!")
To: Shermy
"Serious Looting in Ottawa" Well, I guess that's better than the goofy slapstick looting...
2,846
posted on
08/14/2003 8:21:25 PM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
(The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
To: GOPrincess
With all the information they use to balance the power and so on, they have nothing concrete to talk about other than mythical lightning strikes? I know in one longer power-out I've been through, it was blamed on a squirrel getting in somewhere and shorting everything out. I've had transformers near my house get hit by lightening and the breakers tripped --- I think people in the big cities expect everything to work always ---but electricity has only been commonly used less than 100 years --maybe we're just not as advanced as we like to think. Some of the infrastructure in NY and those other big cities is old and maybe wasn't meant to carry the loads they carry.
2,847
posted on
08/14/2003 8:22:07 PM PDT
by
FITZ
To: hole_n_one
Did Paula have a face transplant or did her neck puke?
To: Petronski
YOU ARE FAST!LOL...I try.
Did you hear Hitlery's phone call to Lester Holt earlier? I came close to lobbing the remote through the screen when she started whining about Enron and trying to blame the Administration for the California energy mess.
To: Petronski
Why give al-qaeda the "credit?"
Who needs al-Qaeda to disrupt our economy with this going on?
2,850
posted on
08/14/2003 8:22:38 PM PDT
by
lelio
To: Windcatcher
Channel 10 News was saying the same thing
2,851
posted on
08/14/2003 8:22:42 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
To: Husker24
Oh, those darned Canadians. They must've heard they could get heart surgery and cancer treatments without the usual 14 week wait.
2,852
posted on
08/14/2003 8:23:12 PM PDT
by
Kieri
To: rwt60
Sure is plausible to me.
I'd particularly feel better if the government *wouldn't* rush to tell us there's no sign of terrorism when something happens, but would wait until they *know*. I think the immediate reassurances, when it's pretty hard to imagine they have a lot of concrete information on hand, have the reverse effect of what they're hoping for.
To: Diddle E. Squat
Well, it would take a lot of evidence that there was terrorism to lead me to think the Prez was trying to hide it for our own good.
There isn't any evidence this is the case.
I would hope you have seen enough of my posts to know I support Dubya 100%.
2,854
posted on
08/14/2003 8:23:25 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.collegemedianews.com *some interesting radio news reports here; check it out*)
To: Shermy
"Serious Looting in Ottawa" Not surprised. I'd bet it's going on in NY too, and they are keeping a media lid on it.......
To: PennsylvaniaMom
Well, don`t trust your soul to
No backwoods Southern lawyer
To: hole_n_one
Maaaaaaaaaaaan ... and I thought I was having a bad hair day with this humid weather .. LOL
2,857
posted on
08/14/2003 8:24:16 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
To: Windcatcher
"One question the supervisor at the grid station had was, why didn't the computers in Canada and NY stop the problem there?"
Now we are getting somewhere. The computers could not respond because they were infected.
To: Mo1
Wow! 2 seconds. Not much time to avert catastrophy. It will probably just turn out to be some computer or component that didn't respond quickly enough. Still, it's a shame. I was hoping GW Bush could have a restful August.
Prairie
2,859
posted on
08/14/2003 8:24:33 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Middle East terrorists to the world: " We don't want no STINKING PEACE!!")
To: Joe Hadenuf
Well...that's because Grey Davis and Bill Clinton are on the phone deciding which story will do Grey the most good.
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