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Major power surge in NY? (Blackout is in NYC, Detroit, Ottawa and Toronto, per Fox News)
8-14-03
| Joe Hadenuf
Posted on 08/14/2003 1:14:13 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Im Your Huckleberry
Seems like it could just be a very overburdened system with high temperatures and everyone using too much electricity. It seems the only cold place today is here where it's supposed to be hot. I'm not ruling out a terrorist attack with the open borders and all ---- but I think there's other possibilities.
1,721
posted on
08/14/2003 4:42:39 PM PDT
by
FITZ
To: FairOpinion
NYC Looks surreal without the lights on and the sun setting.
To: Trivista
Since 9/11, the power companies have hired security experts and have THREE software systems designed to prevent this kind of thing from happening and to prevent cyber terrorism - which is exactly what Cheney was afraid of in 6/01.
We all do understand, do we not, that ANY system can be worked around by extremely clever cyber people?
Your insinuations that Cheney didn't act appropriately on his concerns are misguided and just plain incorrect.
1,723
posted on
08/14/2003 4:43:17 PM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: Timesink
I'm not talking about the Manhattan plant, but whatever the building was across the river in New Jersey.
1,724
posted on
08/14/2003 4:43:25 PM PDT
by
Lynne
To: FairOpinion
No Evidence of Terrorism in BlackoutThat's a lot different than "Evidence shows it was NOT terrorism"
To: null and void
Null and Void..it isn't "Quagmire" yet!
1,726
posted on
08/14/2003 4:43:37 PM PDT
by
MEG33
To: Kieri
Oakland County is completely in the dark from what I've heard.
I know it's a state of emergency there. Macomb is also hit. So is Ann Arbor(North Washtenaw is tied to Livingston which is safe).
1,727
posted on
08/14/2003 4:43:48 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("This ain't no place for a nervous person." - Mickey Redmond)
To: appalachian_dweller
All you can do is be as prepared as possible and pray.I have a stock of antibiotics. As an agnostic my prayers begin with "To whom it may concern..." Been doing a lot of them lately...
To: swarthyguy
Here's a blessing: FULL MOON.
1,729
posted on
08/14/2003 4:43:52 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: BurbankKarl
Thanks Karl....
To: Consort
Any word from Baghdad Bob on this?
I'm in New York City right now, and I can tell you that all the lights are ON!
To: OXENinFLA
LOL! You're instincts are correct! LMAO!
Prairie
1,732
posted on
08/14/2003 4:45:24 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Middle East terrorists to the world: " We don't want no STINKING PEACE!!")
To: Peach
1,733
posted on
08/14/2003 4:45:24 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
To: Peach
"In other words, everyone has a theory and no one knows diddly. "
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That's about it. "Fire, no, overload, no, lightning, no, fire..."
To: OXENinFLA
LOL! You're instincts are correct! LMAO!
Prairie
1,735
posted on
08/14/2003 4:45:24 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Middle East terrorists to the world: " We don't want no STINKING PEACE!!")
To: Im Your Huckleberry
To: Petronski
Outages are sporadic in the Buffalo area -- the workplace went dark about 4:15, but the power has been on at home here about 5 miles away.
The southern tier seems to be more widely affected. There are reports from the Erie County Fair of people stuck on rides and such, I hear they closed it down for the night except for a Kelly Clarkson (sp?) concert there.
It's been pretty hot today, but there was no mention of any thunderstorms or lighting strikes in the Niagara Falls area, so this theory is probably bogus...
To: Peach
"Since 9/11, the power companies have hired security experts and have THREE software systems designed to prevent this kind of thing from happening"Did we happen to outsource those software systems to Indian programmers?
1,738
posted on
08/14/2003 4:45:24 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
To: Im Your Huckleberry
How many posts does it take for you to tell everyone six times that you don't believe there was lightning at Niagra Falls today?
You are really annoying.
To: Focault's Pendulum
I can state unequivocably:
If Focault's Pendulum had been appointed to run in place of Toricelli, none of this would have happened!
Thank You.
Tony
1,740
posted on
08/14/2003 4:45:25 PM PDT
by
TonyInOhio
(Nothing is printed in the New York Times / 'til it's edited by a Liberal with an axe to grind)
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