Holy cow, I’m watching Fox News. People are walking out of NYC. It reminds me of 9/11.
Developing story…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59083-2003Aug14?language=printer
Just heard about this…reminds me of the Blackout of '65.
Anybody who knows more, please post, thanks.
Just listening to the news down here (it’s 7.00 am Friday) and it sounds absolutely chaotic and very frightening.
Good luck to all who might be affected. Take care and keep us posted please.
kam.
No traffic lights, no subways. No computers. Holy cow.
And all those people stuck in the subways, with no light or a/c, in the middle of August. Jesus. I hope they can get them out of there ASAP.
Yes, would anyone with no power right now give us a post telling us what’s going on?
Hmm…seems my sarcasmatron just blew up…
Bloomberg is saying power won’t be back on until late this evening.
I talked to my co-worker in NY…he said Con Ed isn’t on fire, but when they shut it down, smoke comes out of it.
Take it for what it’s worth.
I just hope Eve isn’t trapped in an elevator.
Well, they can use a laptop - I don’t know about hooking up to the net, though - wireless?
So I guess we’ll get our nightly news on the networks out of LA, right?
WNYW…where’s that? That’s where Fox is transmitting from.
The guy on MSNBC says that whatever happened in New York caused a ripple effect in the power grid, affecting the Tri-State area, Ohio, Michigan, and parts of Canada.
They’re showing lots of pedestrians right now–this group seems to be headed towards the Lincoln Tunnel. Another problem seems to be cars running out of gas. They’re piling up at gas stations, which can’t do a thing without power for the pumps.
Sheesh, what a mess. And I was travelling through that area just a few days ago.
Oooooo well, obviously I wouldn’t think those who were involved in this would be online right now…but as soon as they are…I curious as to how many on here were effected and what they did/happened.
Our power flicked on and off for the better part of an hour, with about a five minute gap of no power.
Considering we usually are the first to lose power for no reason whatsoever ( and why everyone around us has a generator) I’m rather pleased that I have power.
Kinda makes up for the five day stint without power or phones this spring after the ice storm.
Naturally, I will be withholding my ‘neener, neeener, neener’ as a precaution.
Just FYI, they say there’s no evidence of terrorism which of course is the first thing on anyone’s mind these days. The streets of NYC are just flooded with people. And it hit right at rush hour it seems. That has got to suck. In a heat wave. You’d THINK it was planned, but that’s just paranoia hopefully.
Mayor says power is actually being restored now, just slowly.
Hm. Gee, I THOUGHT it was easier than usual to log on to the SDMB this afternoon…
I caught something briefly on my local news about contacting the airport for flight information - since I didn’t know what was going on, I flipped to CNN, and saw the story about NY. I’m just amazed by the pictures of the people in the street.
The scroll bar on the screen just said that the outage started in Ottowa and spread from there. Either way, I hope it comes backi for all affected as soon as possible.
power is coming back up in erie pa and parts of new jersey. cell phones are affected in the blacked out areas.
the niagara mohawk grid is huge, and quite a bit of the states and canada are blacked out.
thankfully the humidity broke in parts of the north east today.
I just checked, many Western NY counties have reported widespread power outages. I assume Buffalo is affected, as it is powered by Niagara-Mohawk.
I don’t know. Being trapped in an elevator with Eve might be fun. Sort of an Algonquin Round Table in a square box. That is until she went stark raving mad and attacked me with her lorgnette!
Yikes. We Memphians just got our power back on. I know how it feels. I just hope this doesn’t stretch on for two weeks like it did for us. Good luck, y’all.
A few cities are coming back online, such as Niagara-on-the-Lake and Grimsby, Ontario, and some places in NY State.