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.

[lelio]

No Trouble in Reston, Virginia.

And some creepy old man surfing AOL teen chat rooms is thanking his lucky stars.

[Snowy]

Nine counties in PA are reporting w/o power.

Do you know which counties? Please keep us advised if you can. Thanks.

[Petronski]

Now reports of WARREN and MCKEAN county difficulties. Picture the letter C. I'm in ELK county, inside the C.

[Rome2000]

Yeah, but you still have Algore to contend with.

[null and void]

When in Trouble,

When in Doubt,

Run in Circles, Scream and Shout!

If outside run inside

If inside run outside

It doesn't matter where you run,just as long as you run...

[meyer]

In my view this is a terrorist attack until proven otherwise.

I don't agree - many of us in the utility industry have expected this type of event for the last few years - ever since someone in Washington decided that each utility's wholly-owned portion of the transmission grid should become a common carrier for everyone else's electricity. Reliability isn't a goal any longer - its not profitable.

[theriotcat]

Hear tell the New York Times will contract the printing out to Hustler Mag

[OXENinFLA]

I heard that too.

I would think Hannity's call screener would have told him what the call was about, and he sounded confused.

[txdoda]

CNN said they talked to some homeland security official, who said, that they don't think it's a terrorist attack, because they didn't get a warning, but they didn't rule it out, but not to worry. Very helpful! (/sarcasm)>>>>>


Oh we're all safe since HDS now recieves *warnings* from the terrorists *before* they attack in the USA !!

[radiohead]

Ann Arbor, at dark it must be time to go to the Arb with a bottle of wine and that co-ed friendly down the hall

Be careful. We were pretty sure our son was conceived in the Arb. Didn't need no blackout, either. : )

[Timesink]

There's more than one "grid," but the one affected technically reaches as far west as Saskatchewan and Oklahoma, and as far south as Florida. What likely happened is that the power company command centers further out saw what was starting to happen in the Northeast and yanked themselves off the grid before the cascading failures got to them.

[firewalk]

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[Trust but Verify]

They probably have information from the utilities describing the event that leads them to think it was equipment failure follwed by designed shutdown to protect the system. Why do they so quickly rule out terrorism? In this case, I think it is because they can. And to stop the rampant speculation, panic, etc.

[reagan_fanatic]

"RUN! EVERYTHING IS CONSPIRACY!"

There must have been a helluva run on Reynolds Wrap..

[Interesting Times]

Now reports of WARREN and MCKEAN county difficulties. Picture the letter C. I'm in ELK county, inside the C.

Better start nailing plywood over your windows...

[lainie]

John Gibson was speaking to a guy on the air earlier named Phil Tank, and I was just waiting for the baba-booey (it didn't come).

[Joe Hadenuf]

I work in a Network Operations Center and we are seeing massive outages all over multiple networks across the country.

How could this have anything to do with this. Any outages in mid west or west coast?

[Walkingfeather]

FLetch

[Dog]

Bush to speak tonight??

[SamAdams76]

"David...you really screwed up this time. Now you get this fixed right this instant or I'm telling your parents."