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.

[Myrddin]

I'm sure we'll have a "blast" at Yellowstone. Old Faithful is just gushing as the prospect of another visitor :-)

[finnman69]

i heard East side power in the East 60's near 2nd avenue are on.

Phones should work if you have an old fashioned non cordless phone.

[RightWingNilla]

Thanks. I still can't reach my wife by phone. It says call cannot be completed at this time. Phones worked to the city OK last night, so I dont know what is going on.

[finnman69]

DAY TWO In Manhattan, the sun is rising but the lights are still out.

Commuters sleep on the steps of the Post Office on 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue in New York during the early hours of Friday, after being stranded by the city's electrical blackout.

A huge power failure swept through parts of the Northeast, Midwest and Canada on Thursday, shutting down trains, subways and airports from New York City to Detroit, forcing people into the streets.

At the ferry terminal on west 38th St., thousands of people without access to the subways and trains flocked to catch ferries, creating another form of gridlock.

Passengers on the downtown A train were stuck underground for two hours before being led out by MTA employees.

Waterway buses to Weehawken were filled to capacity.

Transit workers escorted riders off a subway car on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Pedestrians clogged the Brooklyn Bridge as the power outage brought life to a standstill.

Dozens of people at the Lincoln Tunnel jumped on a truck to get a ride through the tunnel to New Jersey.The police made them all get off the truck.

The hallways of Saint Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan were dark after the blackout. Power generators lit emergency and patient care areas.

The whole of the city was dark and the setting sun painted one building.

[Mamzelle]

bush-bashing...

Well, I also see this as an opportunity to talk about building some nukes and drilling in Alaska...get 'em while they're sweating and all the ice is melted...

[MEG33]

Outstanding!

[Mamzelle]

re: Blaming Quebec for this power failure would be like blaming France. )))

Both work for me. Don't forget Hillary.

[frankoh]

Check out this link to see a large spike in the Ontario spot electricity price at 3pm EST yesterday in advance of the blackout:

http://www.theimo.com/imoweb/marketdata/marketToday.asp

Click on "yesterday" in the demand and price graphs.

I haven't heard any reporting about the energy markets at the time of the blackout. Looks like price gouging was happening.

[Straight Vermonter]

Can anyone tell me about how many city blocks to the mile?

WCBS was saying this morning that 4 blocks equals 1/5 mile. 20 blocks to the mile.

[Mo1]

JUST REPORTED DETROIT MAY BE WITHOUT POWER FOR ANOTHER TWO DAYS!.
Not good.

Nope .. not a good sign

[jimbo123]

Power back up in my Brooklyn neighborhood around 2:00 pm ET. Yee-haw!

[oprahstheantichrist]

"Can anyone tell me about how many city blocks to the mile?"

EIGHT.

[DollyCali]

http://www.cleveland.com/index.ssf?G_RATED=NO&MOVIE_ID=&REGION_ID=77&x=15&y=5

LINK ON "Blackout Blog"



http://www.cmpco.com/about/system/blackout.html

"Great Blackout of 65"

[DollyCali]

Great Pictures !!! Thank you.

I have never been to NY.. someday????????

Cleveland still w/o power & water.

The morning paper (Cleveland Plain Dealer) .. sorry rag that it is, was only `16 pages today - and 9 pages were ads for Dillards.

They had to use the Akron Beacon Journal presses for that...

[GOP_1900AD]

There is increasing suspicion of Detroit Edison as the initial area of instability. Oh, and I'd like to add, after the obligatory downsizing over the past few years they turned their transmission engineers into mobile employees and gave them wireless laptops which would allow them to log into the control systems. I wonder if anyone has checked DTE engineering ranks for possible Al Qaida affiliation, particularly given the many highly educated Arab immigrants who live in Southeastern Michigan?

[GOP_1900AD]

Just like what happened with shorting airline stocks by day trader Al Quida dudes just before 9/11....

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the insight!

[GOP_1900AD]

It is speculation, but well founded speculation. DTE's transmission engineers use wireless laptops to control their portion of the grid.

[onyx]

Thanks for taking the time to respond! I worried about you!

[floriduh voter]

My pc crashed during this thread yesterday. Sometmes divine intervention takes me off line when my imagination is going full bore. I'm glad last night was safe, well, except in Canada.

It gave Homeland Security a chance to see our flaws but also the cells who were probably doing research in various cities.

A major flaw in NY is HRC. When is she up for re-election?