Lights Coming Back on Across Blackout Area

CNN.com ^ | 8/14/03 | CNN

[Texas_Dawg]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Power began to flicker on late Thursday evening, hours after a major power outage struck simultaneously across dozens of cities in the eastern United States and Canada.

By 11 p.m. in New Jersey, power had been restored to all but 250,000 of the nearly 1 million customers who had been in the dark since just after 4 p.m., a spokeswoman for Public Service Energy and Gas said.

[Texas_Dawg]

Am I the only one posting right now from Midtown Manhattan?

[CarmelValleyite]

Have you got power or are you working off a battery pack?????? Do you know if people in Westchester County, north of Manhattan, have power? Are any trains running yet?

[Post Toasties]

I count a total of three conflicting stories from Canadian officials as to the source of the outage, including the one by Cretin in which, strangely enough, they all are pointing fingers at various US sources. Even if one of them is correct, which is doubtful, the other two have to be liars.

[DmBarch]

While the outage affected most of south east and south central Michigan, it was spotty near Lansing. Lansing and East Lansing were out, with Lansing service restored 12:20 AM EDT. The areas east and south of town either did not lose power or were back up quickly. The next county north had power back after four hours.

[BenLurkin]

Here is the true cause of the black-out:

[segis]

I work in downtown manhattan - i just got back to my apt. No power in either place but my laptop has some juice left.

I got to catch some zzzz's. Bye.

[Brian S]

Good news Dawg. Excellent performance by the peoples of NY and others in the blackout zone. Handled it quite nicely...

Salute!!!

[da_toolman]

Keep an eye out for the Verizon "can you hear me now" guy...

[The Duke]

My guess is that at this point we're mainly seeing the results of generators coming online. And it's been a bit of an eyeopener to see exactly who *doesn't* have generators on hand!

[Grig]

"I count a total of three conflicting stories from Canadian officials as to the source of the outage, including the one by Cretin in which, strangely enough, they all are pointing fingers at various US sources. Even if one of them is correct, which is doubtful, the other two have to be liars"

I also find it hard to belive they have any information so quickly. This is just PR, put out the lie they want you to belive now and the truth won't stick in your mind when it comes out later.

[JustPiper]

By 11 p.m. in New Jersey, power had been restored to all but 250,000 of the nearly 1 million customers who had been in the dark since just after 4 p.m., a spokeswoman for Public Service Energy and Gas said.

Ok by 11pm, so say it came bacl on after 8-9pm...it doesn't get dark until what 8:30pm? So how were they in the dark at 4pm?;)

[exnavy]

OK, "we don't know what caused this, but it wasn't terrorists." That is a really stupid statement.