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.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I can think of justification for penicillin(at least tomorrow...)

[FITZ]

Did we happen to outsource those software systems to Indian programmers?

Good question. We've managed in a short time to become completely dependent on foreign countries.

[Petronski]

I'll organize all the virgin women..we'll call them the Petronettes.

Well they can bear my name, but for God's sake (for my sake?), let's not make them in my image! [full body shudder]

[Republican Red]

I was watching NBC a few minutes ago. Pretty Boy Williams cuts to Ashleigh Banfield to get the "countdown to sundown" report. There was no sound except some woman was heard saying "I'll be home soon. Fox is now showing regular news". Ashleigh's voice then came up.

Too funny.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Be interesting to see what he has to say.

[Timesink]

Safe to say looting will definitely happen in Detroit.

Yeah, but that happens every night in Detroit. ;)

[GOPrincess]

But how does a lightning strike bring down the entire northeast grid? What about backups? Surely a lightning strike isn't that unusual.

[tophat9000]

Joe... Leaven it to a So. Californian to reports this first....do we know power outages or what!!!!!!!!!!

[Domestic Church]

Please plug in Focault's Pendulum's back-up metamucil generator.

[CaptSkip]

If the US power grid is connected to Canada, will terrorists using Canada as an entry to the US decide to hit the grid in Canada to take out parts of the US?

Less secure in Canada and an even softer target?

[Rome2000]

The sleeveless chick on Fox News is staring to disturb me.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Can't imagine what his input will be?

"Buy Batteries"?

[Fitzcarraldo]

In California, load exceeded on-line capacity:

[ThirdMate]

Thanks for the solid info. Would they attempt a startup using standby diesels, or wait for outside power?

[CindyDawg]

See my tag line lol. I've been following this thread all afternoon at work but couldn't post. I'm sorry but I don't trust any of them (gov. or media).

[ican'tbelieveit]

And it is not likely that most of the people who are affected will have the opportunity to hear or see him speak. Or even know he is going to speak.

[lelio]

The NY chart hasn't been updated for several hours. How often is it usually?

[Joe Hadenuf]

Missed that, darn it.

[mewzilla]

They just repeated the 50 million number. I'm glad cause after I posted it I wondered if I'd been hearing things.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Who knows... All I know is, Canada has been out of power for generations ;0)