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.

[floriduh voter]

Don't fret about Home Depot. I made some purchases there today. Your stock will be up by tomorrow.

[Mannaggia l'America]

Sounds like a terror attack to me, all they have to do is hack into the main power grid computers and overload a few transformers and kapoof... power is out !

All of the Al Qaida sleeper cells were instructed to turn on their air conditioners full blast at a coordinated time today and POOF - the grid goes down. How did the CIA miss it?

[ChadGore]

Fly the blow dryed poodle to NY!

[Fitzcarraldo]

http://currentenergy.lbl.gov/

[July 4th]

That was nice...FOX off the air for 5 secs.

[Dog]

What just happened to Fox.....

[cmsgop]

FOX just blinked for me in Seattle

[aristeides]

People had to walk from work in NYC on 9/11.

[mlbford2]

Yeah, it should be interesting in the projects tonight. You know how they like to burn their own dwellings and busineses down.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Yeah, we saw that too!

[null and void]

If the whole grid collapses, they will park a Nuclear Carrier offshore NYC and 'bump start' the grid from the ship's power plant.

IIRC, last time they swiped a bunch of car batteries to fire up a university (educational) generator to get a 60 Hz signal to start the sync up process...

[Quilla]

John Gibson on Fox reporting a spokesman for a federal agency (sorry, forget which one deals with energy) blames fire at electrical station in Manhattan as cause.

[floriduh voter]

Too bad Arianna's microphone doesn't have an outage. She's so much like HRC.

[Timesink]

Fox News may be in trouble; they were just knocked off the air for about ten seconds.

(Of course, all they need to get on the air is one satellite truck anywhere in the country, but they'd have to reconfigure.)

[olorin]

. . . or it could be that the Viking Kitties got a little out of hand. ;)

[aristeides]

It's wartime. Time to call up the National Guard?

[GSWarrior]

I bought at a used bookstore. Good read!

[deport]

Lets hope they don't drag down the rest of the grid when they try to bring it back up.

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They will bring it back in sections.... the only way you can do it..... Get the power plants ready to go online, get the transmission system functioning, then the distribution system...... It's a sequence they have in place and will be used, i'm sure.

[lelio]

Called my parents in Schenectady, NY (outside of Albany) and their power went off for 5 minutes, back on now.

[theFIRMbss]

>The gyrations continue for a few minutes until everything interconnected is dead, or the load/supply equation achieves something close to equallibrium.

Do you think they'll fix
this in time for tomorrow's
new Kim Possible?