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.

[Danette]

You're a newbie, huh?


I see Dan the News Man has got you spooked.

[Joe Hadenuf]

We didn't hear that? Lightning caused this???

[Im Your Huckleberry]

Just said that the Canadian Prime Ministers office says it was a lightning strike at a power plant in Niagra that caused it!

(Insert Im Your Huckleberry falling to the floor with belly laughs, here)

[lelio]

Wasn't there a major push to move towards digital handsets? Do those depend on repeaters to relay the signal? If so then they probably aren't working.

[mewzilla]

Gov. Pataki just said about half the folks in NYS are without power. He's not making any predictions about how long restoring it is going to take.

[strela]

Bloomberg. Idiot.

I know what you meant and have no argument with that assessment.

[P.O.E.]

MSNBC announced Michigan may declare a State of Emergency. Detroit having trouble getting gas pumped, traffic not as bad as NY area.

[mhking]

CBC just said that there was an unconfirmed report that lightning may have struck a power plant near Niagra Falls.

[Dane]

Six flags in Ohio is in between Cleveland and Akron so they would be without power also

Not exactly. Six Flags Ohio, formerly known as Geagua Lake is a bit east from the I-77 corridor connceting Akron to Cleveland.

From Clevland and going south it is basically a straight line following I-77 to Akron and Canton.

[Petronski]

Lightning strike? Yeah, right.

And the lightning bolt was named Ahmed.

[null and void]

It is, indeed an unpleasant thought, but not a needed one. And there's a good reason why you didn't think of it. There's no reason to!

Dear God. I hope you're right. I fear you're not.

Creatin says lightning at Canada Niagra caused outage.

[AZamericonnie]

Loma Prieta was in 89....I remeber it well!

[Im Your Huckleberry]

PMSNBC just reported it. Says they are being told by the Canadian Prime Minister's office that "a lightning strike at a Niagra power plant caused the chain reaction outage".

I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor.

[Eva]

I wish I could hear your rendition of People who need People.

[swarthyguy]

Remember the two Pakistanis arrested in Florida last year for planning to blow up a transformer station.

[FairOpinion]

Largest-Ever Blackout Hits Eastern U.S.
By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press Writer

The biggest power blackout in history hit steamy U.S. and Canadian cities Thursday, stranding people in subways, closing nuclear power plants in Ohio and New York state and choking streets with workers driven from stifling offices.

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/apmethods/apstory?urlfeed=D7SU17HG0.xml

But of course, there is nothing unusual, nothing at all.

And while I was posting it, ABC said that Canada's prime minister said that lightening caused the outage.

In the meantime, unrelated, of course ;) NORAD sent up unscheduled airplanes.

All this from ABC.

[FITZ]

I would be most concerned for those who are stuck in the middle of an upside down loop roller coaster.

Does that happen? I would think the cars would keep going until they made it to a flat area.

[null and void]

It already hit the max of 65,536 yesterday and they started a new thread.

*sigh* I blinked and missed it...

[appalachian_dweller]

All you can do is be as prepared as possible and pray.