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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: aristeides
They wouldn't lie to us, would they?
To: Joe Hadenuf
Mars near opposition... saucers crash in the New Jersey swamps...
War of the Worlds, 2003.
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posted on
08/14/2003 1:56:06 PM PDT
by
djf
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To: danmar
axlelee it is lookin like a major distribution problem. Gray Davis has a hand in this somehow.
364
posted on
08/14/2003 1:56:10 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Petronski
Those images in the NY area are totally incredible....
To: r9etb
And, given that there's probably a higher-than-normal load in the system right now, I'm betting it wouldn't take much to cause a cascade of problems throughout the grid.Granted, higher loads take you closer to the edge, but I've been in the business for 20 years. Utilities aren't all following the rules any more, and they aren't building in adequate transmission or generation reserves any more. Its too expensive in a competitive market to be the one with the adequate contingency capability. Plus, hyper-nimbyism has created some areas that just cannot withstand any contingencies at all. New York may be such an area.
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posted on
08/14/2003 1:56:21 PM PDT
by
meyer
To: mikegi
LOL.....I actually
use SMPTE bars in my work.
To: Question_Assumptions
The 1965 power blackout that affected the entire northeast was caused by a failure in upstate NY that had a cascade effect.
To: July 4th
Yikes, thanks!
To: Joe Hadenuf
NOTHING IS NORMAL HERE IN CALIFORNIA!
To: Petronski
The shots of thousands fleeing NYC is chilling, almost biblical.My daughter is one of them right now. Although I think many will realize there is no getting out and head back to where they work and plan to camp out.
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posted on
08/14/2003 1:56:35 PM PDT
by
Cagey
To: Dog Gone
Umm, I may be wrong, but don't Nuclear Power plants....generate their own power???
To: Joe Hadenuf
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A massive power outage swept across swaths of the eastern United States and Canada on Thursday, leaving sections of New York City, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto without electricity, witnesses said.
Subways in New York came to a complete halt, and power was out at all three of the New York area's major airports. Commuter train service also came to a halt, and cellular telephone service was disrupted.
CNN reported a fire at a Con Edison power plant in Manhattan.
The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Forked River, New Jersey was not functioning, according to people familiar with the plant's operation.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said they did not know the reason for the power outages, but said the department was looking into it.
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posted on
08/14/2003 1:56:41 PM PDT
by
m1-lightning
(Libertarians are like Big Macs, they think everyone lives inside a box.)
To: steveo
Let the looting begin! So Congress was not affected, huh!
To: Joe Hadenuf
I really don't know anything and doubly so because I am cubicle-bound...
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posted on
08/14/2003 1:56:50 PM PDT
by
Liberal Classic
(Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
To: Snowy
Is anyone having sex yet? If they are, they're not posting here (and if they were, they deserve the title of "Most devoted FReeper.")
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posted on
08/14/2003 1:56:52 PM PDT
by
jae471
To: OrangeDaisy
Cavuto on Fox News just said that this is "not terrorist related."
THEY always say that!
"THEY" didn't on 9/11
To: NorseWood
Reporting the entire city of Toronto is also down......
To: July 4th
Yeah, very 9/11-like. Eerie Sounds more like the blackout that happened in 1965
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posted on
08/14/2003 1:57:49 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
To: Bahbah
I just saw the pics, looks like a veritable mess.
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