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.

[Fitzcarraldo]

http://currentenergy.lbl.gov/

[menotyu]

FPCON DELTA lock and load.

[Old Sarge]

Thanks to you good people, I am now updating my staff every 15 minutes!

FReepers are serving the home front!

[Thisiswhoweare]

"I was concerned about the same thing -- we've been reading about the possibility of such attacks. Even more worrisome is what else they might do, using this power outage"

Agree, we will find out shortly if this was on purpose...they will follow through with something more drastic to extend the problems.

[FairOpinion]

I was just relating what they said on CNN.

[mlbford2]

This crap is taking away form ARNOLD's TV time.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Is that the same as New Milford?

[Hobsonphile]

My acquaintance in southern MA reports his power is still on. Hope all you New Yorkers are doing okay!

[aristeides]

I thought the NYC subways had their own independent power system.

[frithguild]

Monmouth County New Jersey

Our power flickered.

I have relatives from Colorado sightseeing in NYC today.

If I run out of vodka I'll come over for beer!

[Dog]

I'm in south Jersey.....where in Jersey are you??

[cinFLA]

News is now saying it maybe related to an overload of some sorts, so I'm curious - how fast they can shed a heavy load? I know they have to have something in place to do so, but just wondering how fast it can do so.

Quickly. But they would like it to be orderly with minimum loss so it is controlled by a software program.

At some nuclear plants I worked, we could dump 100% of the load in milliseconds if there was a problem on the grid or with the electrical generator.

[OXENinFLA]

That's an interesting graph.

Can you post the link?

[Pest]

Fortunately, the generator that I bought for Y2K will come in handy!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Hearing reports that power could be down for another 5 to 8 hours!!!!

[You Dirty Rats]

There will be a baby boom next May!

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

This thing is ugly ..... just wait for the riots and looting to start.

The Lakers won another championship?

[faithincowboys]

This is Jean Chretien's (a big friend of Bubba)gift to Davis and the Clintons. Thank Canada for being the jackoff mecca. Haven't we learned not to rely on Canada?

[menotyu]

Who's goin chicken huntin???? Bye