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Offline funkedup

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« Reply #30 on: August 14, 2003, 04:26:38 PM »
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Someone must be doing the ROTFL thing in California :D


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« Reply #31 on: August 14, 2003, 04:44:30 PM »
Build more nuke plants dag-nabbit!!!
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« Reply #32 on: August 14, 2003, 04:47:20 PM »
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Don't NYC and Boston get power from the Thunder Bay basin powerplants up here?
I could be mistaken though.


Nope..I think you will find that Quebec is where you are thinking about (or aboot  ;) ).  They sell it to the US cities rather than say..Nova Scotia because it is paid for in US dollars.  :)

But Toronto gets its power from Pickering Nuclear Station for the most part.

One thing is for sure though.

BLAME CANADA!

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« Reply #33 on: August 14, 2003, 04:53:58 PM »
This happened almost exactly the same way in the late 60's. ConEd threw a breaker and the whole grid went down. Since then they have spent BILLIONS re-doing the system so that it would never happen again.(Federally supplied Billions...Nat Defense) Wanna bet it's the same breaker at the same station that went down?
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« Reply #34 on: August 14, 2003, 05:06:55 PM »
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BLAME CANADA! ;)



BAH!

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damn my parents are blacked out in Hawksbury ON and are starting to worry aboot all their frozen goods..looks like I'm gonna be taking a little trip tomorrow if the power doesn't come back up, seeing as though I live the closest to em !
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« Reply #35 on: August 14, 2003, 05:37:22 PM »
Cranked up the AC in honor of all you NEasters.
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« Reply #36 on: August 14, 2003, 05:40:30 PM »
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"Niagara Falls..."

 camera cuts to a mean looking Moe slowly turning towards Larry and Curly with murder in his eyes....


 Slllooowwwwlllyy I turned step by step inch by inch.
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« Reply #37 on: August 14, 2003, 05:41:25 PM »
Power was out for about 2 hours, just got back on, but the local electric company doesnt know how much longer its gonna be on :mad:

And while i have this power, what better place to visit then the bbs :D
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« Reply #38 on: August 14, 2003, 05:43:30 PM »
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Guess it's too late to blame Enron.

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« Reply #39 on: August 14, 2003, 05:58:08 PM »
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I thought only California had power troubles anyways?  Where's all the smartasses who were talking **** when CA had power porkage?


Still here tardling...can we cut off the power to you bananas yet?!  :p


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« Reply #40 on: August 14, 2003, 06:05:55 PM »
Let us not polk fun at those who are without power. I want all of us Californians to remember the support and sympathy we got during our power problems. May your food stay fresh or frozen. May your power come on before the sun goes down. May your hospitals emergency power last. I feel for you in the North East for we are now brothers.........





But just in case I hope you have batteries candles generators and some dry ice.
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« Reply #41 on: August 14, 2003, 06:15:10 PM »
No power problems here in AZ. Even if it was a problem my RV with gen and ac is right outside the house today. :D
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« Reply #42 on: August 14, 2003, 06:24:00 PM »
bad for peoples living there:(

but what do you know about power outage, lol
if you not live in Poland 15-20 years ago;)
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« Reply #43 on: August 14, 2003, 06:44:37 PM »
A Dept. of Homeland Security Spokesman on ABC refuses to say it was not Terrorism. In fact this guy is laying out a good plan for terrorists to follow, giving out key locations that would cripple the power grid. First it was the pot dealers that supported terrorism, then the head shops that supported terrorism, then porn that supported terrorism....is it ConEd now? Don't get me wrong, DHS is a good idea, they just have morons working there.
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« Reply #44 on: August 14, 2003, 06:45:20 PM »
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sounds nasty - 1000's trapped in subways, no buses, no elevators, ppl walking out of NYC on tv, traffic is at a standstill


There was an electrical explosion of some sort about 3 stations ahead of a subway I was riding in. It brought the whole line to a halt, and we were stuck in this subway for 3 HOURS. THREE HELLISH HOURS. It was about 5:30 so it was standing room only. I didn't have a seat. It was summer, people were sweating, there were crazy mofos just SCREAMING gibberish after a while, just completely LOSING THEIR toejam. And the car STANK. Man.... did that ever SUCK.... thought I was gonna die. The fact that it was impossible to smoke didn't help matters.

Finally the conductor comes over the PA... "We came to a stop on a slight incline. I'm going to release the brake and see if we can roll this to the station ahead". Slowly the subway started to creak.... then inch forward... almost imperceptable at first... then a bit faster.... faster still... At that point people are starting to get really excited, and the train is now hauling arse down this hill. "Go! Go! Go! Go!" people chanted. A total frenzy. Yelling this at the top of their lungs. But then.....

The train started to level off and began to slow... and slow... Doubt started to take hold... you could hear it in our voices as the "Go!" began to curl up at the end and sound like a question. "Go....?" Finally the sub exhausted its inertia and we groaned to a stop. It grew dead silent, all but for the scattered sobbing that some of the women there began to do. There was another sound... distant... was it.... cheering?

Definitely cheering, coming from ahead of us somewhere. The conductor got on the PA. "We made it folks. Please proceed to the front of the train." It was incredible.... We walked through the doors that led from one car to the next to the next. When we got to the car at the front of the subway, the door was open and we walked out onto the platform. It turns out that the subway had made it just far enough that the first door *just barely* opened out onto the platform. If it were just two feet short it would have opened up to nothing but a wall.

I feel for anyone stuck in a subway right now... that's for damn sure.
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