Major Power Outages: North Eastern US, and Eastern Canada

**moxsum** · 08-15-2003, 04:31 AM

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The cause of a blackout that affected all of New York City and much of the Northeast on a sweltering August day remained uncertain Friday morning as power began to trickle back to a few, even as more than 15 million from Detroit to Ottawa remained without electricity.

[http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/15/pow...age/index.html]

What are your thoughts on the worst power outage in U.S history? How has it affected you?

**Banned: E=MC2** · 08-15-2003, 10:34 AM

yes , I work for a communications company upstate N.Y. , all the power went out, only for about a half hour. One of the computers power supply's got destroyed when the power went back on. but thats about it. not that bad.

**GT Web** · 08-15-2003, 11:03 AM

I'm glad I live in the west coast

**NameTower** · 08-15-2003, 11:58 AM

i got hit with it for 12 hours. i'm back on now though.

Also, this should be in the lounge as it has nothing to do with domains imo

**Steen** · 08-15-2003, 05:57 PM

Yes,

The westcoat is the place ot be :-D

**Adam Dicker** · 08-15-2003, 06:37 PM

I was down for over 16 hours.

Last night was hell----> no computer, no tv and no Gamecube!

-=DCG=-

**GiantDomains** · 08-15-2003, 06:40 PM

Okay, I'm back.... just got internet back up. :-D

**moxsum** · 08-15-2003, 07:41 PM

West Coast Forever!!

**Keith** · 08-15-2003, 07:45 PM

Lol. Yes, West Coast!

But I dont know, maybe it is just me, but I find this lame.

Blackout2003.com
Blackout2003.net
Blackout2003.org
Blackout2003.us
Blackout2003.biz
Blackout2003.info

All during the day it went out. I dont know, sorry but I just dont get it...

**adoptabledomains** · 08-15-2003, 07:47 PM

Originally posted by devildude8989
Yes,

The westcoat is the place ot be :-D

West Coast?

Yea, why put up with just power outages when you can also have forest fires, earthquakes, and landslides. :-D

...and cereal box politicians as well (flakes & nuts)...

well, okay no state has a lock on this one.

**adoptabledomains** · 08-15-2003, 08:11 PM

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**URLtrader** · 08-15-2003, 08:27 PM

I work in Northern tip of Bronx. Within few minutes of blackout cops asked everyone to close offices/stores and go home. A cabby quoted a crazy amount to take me home. I said fine. Was home by 6.30 PM. Got power back today at 3 PM. Thank God.

**Harry** · 08-15-2003, 09:30 PM

FINALLY - east of the Empire State Building the power come back only less then an 2 hours ago - 27 hours without.

**Anthony Ng** · 08-15-2003, 09:40 PM

Just when I thought I might be one of those unlucky guys who had to bear with the blackout through the weekend, power was back ... but only after more than 20 hours. Good though I still have all those flash light and water tank from y2k. I even had spare gas for my wife's boss who (actually her husband) drove all the way from downtown Toronto just to bring my wife home last night. The trip took them more than 2 hours and left less than 10L of gas in their tank. I don't know what I'm saying ... long story. I still have to recover from this nightmare.

**GeorgeK** · 08-15-2003, 09:44 PM

It went out 4:30 pm on Thursday, and came back on at 4:30 am.

Then it went down at 4:30 pm today for another 2 hours, argh. Very frustrating.

**bidawinner** · 08-15-2003, 09:46 PM

Originally posted by URLtrader
I work in Northern tip of Bronx. Within few minutes of blackout cops asked everyone to close offices/stores and go home. A cabby quoted a crazy amount to take me home. I said fine. Was home by 6.30 PM. Got power back today at 3 PM. Thank God.

The news was saying how nice the cabbies were..giving free rides

Either you got the one jerk of a cabbie or the media is trying to play up the good feel for the rest of the nation..

glad your all back...

BTW.. The Iraqis think it is kind of funny.. cant blame them.. it has been intermittent for them in 120 degree weather for months !

**Anthony Ng** · 08-15-2003, 10:30 PM

Originally posted by nameslave
... I still have to recover from this nightmare.

One good thing is that I have actually hugged more people in the past two days than for the past 6 months. This alone makes me rethink A LOT ...

**Steen** · 08-16-2003, 02:36 AM

Originally posted by adoptabledomains

Yea, why put up with just power outages when you can also have forest fires, earthquakes, and landslides. :-D

Well, ok, I can admit, we currently have bad forest fires and are suppose to be underwater some time soon, but never heard of landslides being a serious problem lately.

FINALLY - east of the Empire State Building the power come back only less then an 2 hours ago - 27 hours without.

What if Canada stopped selling power to the US?

Just a though. (not to get anyone mad).

**moxsum** · 08-16-2003, 02:42 AM

I didnt know canada sold power to the U.S? And even if they do, its to U.S companies, not the country as a whole, and if they did stop (which I dont know if they even do sell power) america would find another source. America is full of natural resources.