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.

[Helix]

One more squirrel who will never reproduce

Down here in the NC Mountains, Kudzu grows into the transformers and shorts them out fairly regularly.

[Benrand]

Captain Oveur: Get me Ham on five, hold the Mayo.

[CedarDave]

Just got on line via your link #481 -- guess who's talking on MSNBC. NM Governor Richardson -- definitely acting like McCain, always ready to go in front of a mike on any subject. Grrrr.

[Trust but Verify]

They do not need to call every power plant. Haven't you read any of the posts of the people familiar with elctric generation and transmission?

[Unknown Freeper]

Geez, all these posts in the time it took me to get home. I did see some airplanes that would have gone into Newark but I see that someone said they were redirected.

(Another central Jersey cable modem user here.)

[CELTICGAEL (Celt)]

Fox just said they heard that cinci is on now.

[KarlInOhio]

per FOX dayton, cinci, cleveland, akron, toledo out! So far Columbus is OK!

Ahhh! Ahhh! I better turn off my lights so I can pretend the power is out!

Dayton is OK. I work about 25 miles south of Dayton and live just south of it. I just called home and my answering machine is on and the radio is talking about the NY power outage, not the Dayton one.

On the other hand, it does look like Cleveland and Toledo are out.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Is Ted Koppell getting pranked? thankyoufortakingmycall.com?

[Rebelbase]

Love the screen name.

[PrivateIdaho]

Those were the days......Shock and Awe!

Ah... the days of Achmed and the web cam....

[Old Sarge]

Kentucky reports city of Providence, Webster County in Western KY just went offline.

This is the ONLY area in KY that's reported.

Note, Folks, this is WAY out of the affected zone, but we are still reporting it as a potential.

More as I get it...

[rs79bm]

Hillary on CNN: Once we get the power back on we're going to have to figure out why the provisions made so ensure this doesn't happen again has happened.

Ahhh, yes, let's leave it to Hillary to create a huge beaurocracy to make sure this doesn't happen again.

[Rome2000]

We just do what we gotta do.

Thats the NYC spirit.

[Fledermaus]

Hey Dolly...haven't seen Poser in a while.

[ringgold]

Yes, too bad that economics have taken precedence over reliability the last few years. I'm all for the free market, but when you are talking about something as vital as electricity, I still believe we need to make sure that the economics of the system do not put us in a precarious position.

[Dog]

nully,Tineout and Achmed fixing the roof on This old Bunker.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Lets hope so.....

[JillianMSU]

Your tellling me, I was alway curious why my Dad sits on the computer looking at this site for hours a day...
....and now I know

[Rebelbase]

""It's all an Amish plot"

LOL, good one.

[MIsunshine]

"Phones still working. the phones still worked because they run off of dc and the offices that feed your phone line have huge banks of batteries as well as generator backup for situations like this"

We lost power AND phone service AND cell phone service about 4:15 south of Detroit. Got nothing but a weird busy signal (not the usual busy signal) for 20 minutes with both regular & cell phones. I thought someone took down the Sprint tower about a quartere mile from my house & that in turn took down phone & electrical lines. Not the case.

Any idea why we lost ALL power, regular, & cell phone service?

Regular phones work now, but cell phone circuits are overloaded & still no power, probably not til tomorrow at the earliest.

Local ABC & CBC from Windsor are both off the air.