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Thu 14 Aug, 2003 02:53 pm
I just saw videos from New York and Toronto, heard live reports via satelite telephone.
Incredible!
New York, Cleveland, Toronto, Ottawa -- lot's of places. There are outages as far south as Marion, Ohio, a good 100 miles south of Cleveland. Could be something similar to the great 1967 blackout, when the entire grid based on Niagara Falls collapsed. There's a slew of power generating stations there--and if they start to go down, it overloads the others, and they shut down.
Still waiting for more news . . .
NPR says Detroit also, that it is not a terrorist attack, but that there was a fire at a Manhattan power plant, and the system started to shut down as overloads backed-up. This is exactly what happended in 1967.
So that means I have to go to the closest safest place if I have no electricity at home ... I know! ... I'll drop into the nearest bar and wait it out, even if it takes all night!
NPR's talkin' to a guy in New York right now, who says the clock in Time's Square is stopped at 4:08 p.m.
Heeven, you'll need to be fortified against all possibilities, but i'm sure you'll take care of that when you get to the local.
Just heard it started with the biig northeast grid connected with the Niagara River - tv just showed flights over NY area didn't show fire - but I'm not sure, because we have flickering on and off here.
Power seems to have come back now - I hope. NY streets look like marathon races - all those people walking. And I just heard that they are getting those poor people out of the subways in orderly fashion.
I thought the last time this happened (same grid) they were supposed to fix it because they'd learned a thing or two?
Well, our late night news is nearly only live reporting from the East coast - now 15 mins longer than usually.
We are rathewr sure here that such couldn't happen in Europe due to the net of different power stations from different places/countries here.
Big cities like those sound like deathtraps without electricity. Surprisingly, this is the first I've heard about it.
And it's hot, too?
Things look civil now but I dread when night falls.
roger wrote:Big cities like those sound like deathtraps without electricity. Surprisingly, this is the first I've heard about it.
Indeed, the tv reports in out tv-news were already running before the news alert of the NYT was sent out.
I was in the subway when the lights went out in 1965. At least that was November........not too hot, not too cold. This is horrendous!
For all of you folks who were laughing at us Californians with our energy problems, all I can say is, what goes around comes around.
wow. Finally someone is talking about this outage. Remember what happened when the elevators got stuck the last time? The population suddenly increased. Cjhsa, Stop that.
Wow, this is huge! The first I've heard of it, as well.
eoe, agreed about concerned about tonight...
I remember those blackouts in the the '60s. Of course back then, no one speculated about terrorism as a possible cause. Now, I'll bet, it was most people's first or second thought!
Hubby is in Cleveland on business. I wonder if he'll be able to call tonight? They said cell phones were unsupported. Oh well, I don't suppose I should worry about him being without electricity. "Hot" in Cleveland is the same as a nice spring day here at home, so he will not suffer. Except that his computer won't work, grrrrr.
We have power
Here in Québec, no cities had been touched by this outage.
Seems that the problem originated at the Niagara Mohawk Power Company which is located in Syracuse, N.Y.
Don't you love it how the media focuses on New York and none of the other major metropolitan areas this has affected? What a joke.
I agree
cjhsa wrote:Don't you love it how the media focuses on New York and none of the other major metropolitan areas this has affected? What a joke.
I watched CNN and they were only talking about New-York!
Fortunately here in Canada they were focusing on the cities in Ontario, but were only fed back images of New-York no other american cities.
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