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.

[eddie willers]

but it wouldn't cross into the Western half of the country, or into the Texas Interconnect.

Figure Georgia's safe?

[Skooz]

Major baby boom April 2004. (I used my fingers)

[JustPiper]

Emergency Email & Wireless Network®

Power is currently out at all 3 major NYC airports

Other U. S. cities are experiencing blackouts Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto

[Husker24]

how are all you people who are talking via computer, still talking if your power just went out?

[MineralMan]

"How are you posting here if there's no power?"

C'mon. Laptop. Telephone. Posting.

[Dog]

What is going on???

[FairOpinion]

"but it wouldn't cross into the Western half of the country, or into the Texas Interconnect. "

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Not unless it's deliberate -- then they can target the Western US as well.

Can you imagine people being stuck inside subways? Must be terrible.

[July 4th]

Whoa...people are taking over the bridges in NYC because the subways are down.

[cmsgop]

Even with a fire in one powerplant location, this sounds like too large an area to be affected just from that one fire.
I agree with that,very strange...

[eyespysomething]

So far I am here in central GA

[Mo1]

Philly local news is reporting that City Hall is being evacuated .. I'm not sure why though

[Timesink]

Reuters: NYC MTA has cancelled all BUS service! (?!?!?!)

[onyx]

Please respond if you receive this.

[Joe Hadenuf]

We just heard one minute ago that ALL NY AIRPORTS ARE SHUT DOWN.

Now hearing were the power is back on it's intermittent and flickering, going on and off.......

[Mr.Clark]

Elevators too.

[JailToThe Chief]

I was trying to sell about $21,000 worth of stock five minutes before the market closed. Scottrade's website would not let me do it. As you might expect the market closed and I still own almost 650 shares of Home Depot which I wanted to unload.

[Frank_Discussion]

Sounds Heavenly. (not)

[ChefKeith]

Well as I am very near Crawford I think We'll be O.K.

[rdb3]

Yup. Love Field is fine.

[cinFLA]

One of my brothers mentioned back during the 90s, there was a very large blackout in West Texas, centering around a technician cleaning something and managing to knock out power to hundreds of thousands.

Last Tuesday, operators of SMUD (Sacramento) were practicing their rapid load shedding procedures when one operator inadvertently activated the code. SMUD says they will not punish him for cutting off power to over 70k before they could deactivate the load shedding code.