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.

[Hildy]

How about people who were in elevators...Oh my Gosh...

[TonyInOhio]

Another surge here in NW Ohio, no outage.

[biblewonk]

Oh quit, I know yer just messing with us.

[Timesink]

ABCNEWS is in such meltdown mode that they have to use WCBS's helicopter for any video! BWA-HA-HAAAA! Eat it, ABC!!!

[OXENinFLA]

WOW, How far to this grid spread?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Solar flare? Magnetic disruption due to pending geothermal activity (my pets have been a little flaky the past few days)?

[TexKat]

True ... my local news is reporting that the Fed Gov is saying it is not terrorism

Thats what they always say at furst.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I'm in Monmouth County New Jersey....power still up. I got air conditioning and cold beer if anyone needs to evacuate here....bring your own ice.

[Dan from Michigan]

can tell you that here in Stockbridge Michigan we were hit with something right around the same time. Lansing TV and some radio stations are still off the air. Power is back on here. Was only out for about 30 seconds

Sounds like what happened in Howell.

[Sicon]

Everyone just relax. I just heard this on the radio:

A Niagara-Mowhonk (sp?) substation apparently got overloaded, and dropped off the grid, causing a cascading outage. Something similar (sounds identical, actually) happened back in the 1960's - in the same northeast region.

I would have thought that they would have had measures in place to deal with this sort of thing, since it caused problems in the past. But then, electricity is a funny thing...

[joanil]

Hopefully the rest of the grid stays up. We are going downstreet to the gas station to get 10 gallons gas for our generator, just in case!

[John Lenin]

Sounds like a terror attack to me, all they have to do is hack into the main power grid computers and overload a few transformers and kapoof... power is out !

[mtbopfuyn]

Is anyone having sex yet?

Dunno, but it might be interesting to see the number of new borns next May.

[rwfok]

[Peach]

Hope y'all keep your power. We're ok here in SC.

[cmsgop]

So Gene Hackman is to blame! I knew it!

[OXENinFLA]

to=does

don't ask.

[utahagen]

I agree.

[Pest]

Utilities aren't all following the rules any more, and they aren't building in adequate transmission or generation reserves any more. That's great for our company! This blackout will generate some nice business for the consultants in the electricity industry. I have to look on the "bright" side. Pun intended.

[Cagey]

Why do you think that is?

I have no idea but the size of this outage is much more widespread (Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo..etc) than the 65 blackout.