# Power Outage on the East Coast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-on-the-east-coast/195233 "2003-08-14T20:44:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-on-the-east-coast/195233/1 "2003-08-14T20:44:56Z")
So, all the power is out in NYC, some parts of Eastern Canada, Detroit, and some other places in the east… [CNN’s take as of right now](http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html). What’s going on? Anyone on the East Coast able to read this? Any chance of the power outages going west? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-on-the-east-coast/195233/2 "2003-08-14T21:03:44Z")
Seems everyone is deferring to [the thread I started](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=204656). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-outage-on-the-east-coast/195233/3 "2003-08-14T21:26:43Z")
Ours keeps on flickering on and off since 415pm. I am in Northern Detroit Burbs. We are usually losing power if someone insomuch farts on the lines. So the fact that we have power is slightly amazing, to say the least.