View Full Version : What's up with this North East Power outtage?
Muzikman
08-14-2003, 04:02 PM
I am sitting at work and all of our north east sites died. So, can anyone in New York, Detroit, or Toronto get on the internet? Do you have power? What's the word?
Restola
08-14-2003, 04:16 PM
Cleveland's power is out. I'm about 45 min south of cleveland, and in some places it's on, some it isn't. Kind of random. Also stop lights continue to go out even in the last 15 minutes or so :-/
I have power however.
Sooky
08-14-2003, 04:23 PM
Central Canada and Ontario are also out of power. Canada supplies a huge amount of power to the States. The news is saying there has been problems with the Canadian supply of this power grid, and this is what you got.
rpm07
08-14-2003, 04:24 PM
I am in NJ and so far we have power.
Watching news and NY is a mess. Subways not working. it goes from NY to Det. and into Canada Pretty much the North East
rpm07
08-14-2003, 04:26 PM
Originally posted by Sooky
Central Canada and Ontario are also out of power. Canada supplies a huge amount of power to the States. The news is saying there has been problems with the Canadian supply of this power grid, and this is what you got.
Why dont they just switch off E and put the power grid in manual:)
hitech
08-14-2003, 04:31 PM
Roaming blackouts hitting the NE now, eh? ;)
epterry
08-14-2003, 04:39 PM
turn on the tv:D
LongDuckDong
08-14-2003, 04:40 PM
What's up with you putting this in PAINTBALL Talk?
Oh... they cant charge their Xmags or somethin, hehehe
WarBUCKs
08-14-2003, 06:26 PM
Maybe this is a case of poor mis-managment. I am sure it is just a problem with the transformer like they said on the news.
No Redundancy can really screw up the day for millions of people, can't it?
FutureMagOwner
08-14-2003, 07:08 PM
the electronics systems they use are very glitchy. in rhode island the power has gone off a couple times and the hospital generators dont kick in for apparently the same reason this happened over such a large area
sniper1rfa
08-14-2003, 07:30 PM
power is OK here in plymouth MA, however, it was knocked out in various places by the most recent storm.
Tobe2be
08-14-2003, 10:38 PM
Well im in NYC and i lost power at bout 4pm and its about 11:35 and i still dont ahve anypower. how am i typing i got my laptop connected to my phone and im in my car in the ac just chillen. its good to save a sound system. i can watch tv,dvd,play playstation 2,gamecube.and plus i have AC when everyone is outside in the heat.
Benfica4ever
08-14-2003, 10:41 PM
I am in ct, i dident have power for 4 hours.....
la690
08-14-2003, 10:54 PM
im in rochester,ny. my power went out at about 4:30 then came on at about 9:45 but 66.666666% of the city still has no power.
govnamac
08-15-2003, 05:39 AM
I can't even get to work this morning. NJ transit is running on Sat schedule, and even that was 45 minutes behind. The subways are shut, and the buses are running limited service. Luckily I calle the office and found out we had the day off. :D
I'm from Western MA about 45 minutes from the boarder with NY. I've had power the whole time, but two power surges happened at 4:10p.m and 5:30p.m. EST, No biggy though.
I just heard on the Today Show that it started west of Ontario in Canada. The NY powerstation said to have been hit by lightning is actually one of the few that have been providing electricity.
Does MA make it's own power, I think we do with the Old School coal powerstations? Since we were surrounded by states without power. According to the news, NY, CT, NH, and VT were without power, so that makes us cut off. Does anyone know why this would occur?
I got power back sometime around 4am ... it's 8am now.
Talk about Teh suck! I think there are a few pockets around town without power now, and it seems most people are off today. I heard about looting last night, which saddens me ... This is Ottawa, I would hardly ever expect something like that from a city such as ours, but it happened.
Well I hope everyone gets a speedy return back to normal (electrical)life!
Thordic
08-15-2003, 07:50 AM
Originally posted by omni
I heard about looting last night, which saddens me ... This is Ottawa, I would hardly ever expect something like that from a city such as ours, but it happened.
So far I havn't heard about any looking in NYC... Canada sucks :)
lostcause310
08-15-2003, 08:17 AM
YAY its I just got my power back i live in Michigan north of detroit! i lost my power at 410 yesterday!
kevdupuis
08-15-2003, 09:15 AM
Originally posted by omni
I got power back sometime around 4am ... it's 8am now.
Talk about Teh suck! I think there are a few pockets around town without power now, and it seems most people are off today. I heard about looting last night, which saddens me ... This is Ottawa, I would hardly ever expect something like that from a city such as ours, but it happened.
Well I hope everyone gets a speedy return back to normal (electrical)life!
We got power back around 10 pm. As for the looting, you're living in a governmant town. The politicians there are always looting.
Strider
08-15-2003, 09:15 AM
I got power back around 2ish.
Yay, day off! :D
wyn1370
08-15-2003, 09:43 AM
Got mine back about 45 minutes ago.
Luckily works not answering phones yet, so I gets to stay home till they do.
InexactMelissa
08-15-2003, 09:54 AM
The power is back on in Queens now, but no cable tv. I get to take a day off work and I can't even rot my mind with Cartoon Network. :mad:
Duke Henry
08-15-2003, 10:05 AM
Strange, I was watching CNN and CBC Newsworld and they said that the problem started in N. New York state near Niagara Falls (geez New York always has the bad luck with big problems), and since it failed and shorted out major circuits, this caused a strain on the whole system and most got shut down.
Funny side story. Apparently, one crew in an Ontario station saw all of the other stations losing power and whatnot, and decided to isolate themselves somehow (disconnect from the main grid or something), and managed to stay operational. Can you say employees of the month? ;)
Long island hear. I didnt have power From 4:15 all the way to like 4-5in morning i am guessing. Was crazy.
The-Z-Man
08-15-2003, 12:45 PM
accually NH, MA, ME and VT all had power because they shut down from the niagra grid automatically. The whole black out happened in 9 seconds. thats uber fast!
Creative Mayhem
08-15-2003, 12:46 PM
Mine came back around 12:40PM. Yes Canada does supply most of the power to you guys,(WE HAVE THE POWER!!!! :D) but, from everyhting I have heard, it was a grid in NY that overloaded and cause other power grids to re-route power to compensated. When one wen down, the rest followed. :(
CM
magman007
08-15-2003, 12:52 PM
*huggles TMI* Eastern PA didnt have any problems :)
actually, thats really crazy what hapened to you guys, im glad your all safe, now go to the grocery store, and get yourselves new stock for the fridge, all your stuf must have gone bad...
Mango
08-15-2003, 01:33 PM
Damn Canadians playing with the light switches again. :p
Muzikman
08-15-2003, 04:07 PM
For anyone who has seen Canadian Bacon, we all know how Canada runs their power stations.
LongDuckDong
08-15-2003, 04:27 PM
Originally posted by Muzikman
For anyone who has seen Canadian Bacon, we all know how Canada runs their power stations.
lol, you mean the old couple that minds the station?
I heard there was no looting in Canada, although they did rob a beer store, that's Canada for ya, LOL
Muzikman
08-15-2003, 04:29 PM
LongDuckDong??? You a 16 Candles fan?:)
adam shannon
08-15-2003, 04:29 PM
Originally posted by Restola
Cleveland's power is out.
whatchu talkin bout willis..i went out and got a generator, my pc's and ac has been humming since 5pm thursday.
LongDuckDong
08-15-2003, 05:04 PM
Originally posted by Muzikman
LongDuckDong??? You a 16 Candles fan?:)
hehe, of course I am!
"Oooh no way Jose you beat up my face!" "You grabbed my *BEEP*" "Ooooh... that you?" "Yeah that me."
:)
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