Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Eagler on August 14, 2003, 03:30:20 PM
-
I guess if you live in the NE or Canada and it is affecting you, you can not read this right now :)
if you can - stay cool
-
sounds weird - many cities are totally out of power
-
hmmm, coincidence?
-
The light burned out in my bathroom.
-
NYC, Detroit, Ottawa, Toronto, Boston
what do they have in common power wise?
-
All of Michigan is out too I heard NYC is out as well! Im on back up power hear in Pontiac Michgan @ work. but every one else is out.
Do they know why?
-
no problems here...what are you refering too?
-
No problem up here in Bangor, Maine
Hey, what's that unplugged extension cord I see out here....my bad! so sorry boston :D
-
Originally posted by pugg666
no problems here...what are you refering too?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20030814/ts_nm/power_outages_dc
-
airports, subways shut down
-
hmm some sort of storm maybe? It is starting to cloud over around here.
-
It's those damn Rooskies!!
Hide your batteries and conserve your precious bodily fluids.
-
i think its just the withering heat
no problems here but i'm 70 miles south of boston and we have our own power station on the cape.
-
Originally posted by Eagler
NYC, Detroit, Ottawa, Toronto, Boston
what do they have in common power wise?
Niagra Falls...seriously.
-
Im thinking it a terrorist attack on a major power station.
j/k
LOL
:D
-
Guess it's too late to blame Enron.
-
NYC, Detroit, Ottawa, Toronto, Boston
what do they have in common power wise?
............................. ............................. ..............
Niagra Falls...seriously.
Don't NYC and Boston get power from the Thunder Bay basin powerplants up here?
I could be mistaken though.
-
sounds nasty - 1000's trapped in subways, no buses, no elevators, ppl walking out of NYC on tv, traffic is at a standstill
-
Gov't: N.Y. Power Outages Not Terrorism-Related
5 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (news - web sites) (FERC) on Thursday said that a massive power outage that hit New York City and other East Coast cities was not caused by a terror attack.
Power outages were reported in the New York metropolitan area and Detroit, as well as in Toronto and Ottawa, witnesses said.
The outage was caused by an outage at a Manhattan power plant which destabilized the power grid as far as Canada, FERC spokesman Bryan Lee said.
"We have no indication that there is any terrorism involved," Lee said.
THANK GOD FOR EMERGENCY POWER @ WORK
-
powergrid faliure/overload..
CNN
-
what the hell, watching the footage on CNN, is everyone a lemming walking around on the freeway?
-
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York State official said the Niagara Mohawk power grid overloaded on Thursday, causing a massive power outage, CNN reported, and New York Major Michael Bloomberg said it was likely a natural occurrence.
"It may be well into the evening before power comes back on," Bloomberg told the U.S. cable television network. He said smoke from a Consolidated Edison Inc. plant in the city was due to the plant's automatic shutdown, not to a fire, as had been reported.
He said, "I can tell you 100 percent sure that there is no evidence as of this moment whatsoever of any terrorism."
A massive power outage swept across swaths of the eastern United States and Canada on Thursday, leaving sections of New York, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto without electricity, witnesses said.
It was not immediately clear whether the Niagara Mohawk problem caused the wider outage.
-
"Niagara Falls..."
camera cuts to a mean looking Moe slowly turning towards Larry and Curly with murder in his eyes....
-
yawn 1 power grid is effected...news says its due to a domino effect overload problem...
-
It ees Grate Satan Boosh! Boosh is unplugging Democrats in NE!
Boosh will make them sweat, oh YES.. ohyesYESYES...they will sweat until there is no moisture een them!
Deth to Boosh! Deth to Amrika!
-
Originally posted by vorticon
yawn 1 power grid is effected...news says its due to a domino effect overload problem...
dont' think it's a yawner to the millions who are living it
-
Originally posted by Toad
It ees Grate Satan Boosh! Boosh is unplugging Democrats in NE!
Boosh will make them sweat, oh YES.. ohyesYESYES...they will sweat until there is no moisture een them!
Deth to Boosh! Deth to Amrika!
Damn you beat me!
-
Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Guess it's too late to blame Enron.
ROTFLOL! ;)
-
Someone must be doing the ROTFL thing in California :D
-
I thought only California had power troubles anyways? Where's all the smartasses who were talking **** when CA had power porkage?
-
Originally posted by takeda
Someone must be doing the ROTFL thing in California :D
*Raises Hand*
:D
-
Build more nuke plants dag-nabbit!!!
-
Originally posted by pugg666
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!
;)
-
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?
-
BLAME CANADA! ;)
BAH!
;)
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 !
-
Cranked up the AC in honor of all you NEasters.
-
Originally posted by Westy
"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.
-
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
-
Guess it's too late to blame Enron.
ROFLMAO
-
Originally posted by funkedup
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
SOB
-
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.
-
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
-
bad for peoples living there:(
but what do you know about power outage, lol
if you not live in Poland 15-20 years ago;)
-
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.
-
Originally posted by Eagler
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.
-
from what i heard on the news is that NY subway system has planned for power outages and has a way tow the cars to nearest exit. blitzer interviewed a women who was caught in the subway , she said the subway workers led them up emergency stairs to the street.
blitzer asked her if anyone panicked, she said everyone was calm.
-
I dont want to add to the paranoia and speculation, but we had a stream of severe power surges and blackouts today in the afternoon.
This does not usually happen, electricity is usually excellent and consistent here.
Obviously there has to be something very wrong if it affected PR, or a very strange coincidence.
[tinfoil hat]
mass organized hacker attack
[/tinfoil hat]
-
i just wanna see tonights sattelite images...
and i feel sorry for our new york/toronto AH counterparts...
if they would only shut up about it on cbc...for the past 6 hours they have been repeating themselves...it wasnt even this bad sept. 11
(funnily enough it happened at 4:11 eastern...i agree with animal on the hackers)
-
heh Nash. years ago when I was living in Paris, I had a buddy take the 3-hour-tour through the Chunnel from London to Paris.
His train got cancelled due to weather, so they put him on the next train, which was then completely full. Then the thing had an electrical failure down under the channel. He endured 4 hours of complete darkness and the heat of a fully-loaded car. The only thing that worked was the emergency door alarm system that emitted a shrill noise loud enough to be heard if the door were opened at 300 kph.
Then they got to wait outside on a platform in Calais. By now the light snow had become a snowstorm. Then they filled to the gills a regional train that crawled towards paris.
The whole ordeal lasted something like 15 hours. He was scheduled to leave at 12:30 from London. He arrived at 4:15 AM. I went down to check out the folks getting off the replacement (regional slow) train. Man, there was a group that looked like hell.
YEah, it sucks to be in this. My heart goes out to these guys.
-
I don't think some realise how many people are w/o power...... as many as 50 million people could be affected.
-
Ottawa came back up at around 2 am. It was kind of neat, the city being so dark and all. People congrated in pubs, stoops, walked around, as they are want to do in situations like this. Wouldn't want to make a habit of it though.
Originally posted by vorticon
i just wanna see tonights sattelite images...
Same here. Anyone know where to find some online?
-
Originally posted by boxboy28
Im thinking it a terrorist attack on a major power station.
j/k
LOL
:D
Lightning Strike reportedly - God showing everyone who's boss again....
-
During the power outage, I must say that I've had the best connect I've ever had!!! :)
-
Here is an odd one. We lost power here last night for about an hour and a half. No storms to be found, it just went dead.
-
Live on Long Island Power came back on early this morning...definitely and event to tell the grand children about.
-
Originally posted by Replicant
During the power outage, I must say that I've had the best connect I've ever had!!! :)
Removing a few million people off the overseas pipes/junction makes a bit of a difference.
-
What a blast i walked naked down the middle of my street.
-
Guess you'd have to be grateful it didn't happen during the winter.
I did lived through a week long power outtage at the begining of February a few years back.
large areas of quebec and northern Vermont, Ney york and think Maine as well where out of power after very large ice storm.
I lived in my car most of the time :D
-
I live in westland Michigan and on thrusday we had no power, no water, and no cell phone use. Everthing was out! HOT AS HELL. but today it shows some rain.
Thank god my mother who lives in CAnton Michigan got power at 8am on friday. So my wife and i packed our dogs and whats left of our food in the car and headed to canton.
One nice thing is that last night was the first time in a LONG time i saw stars out. :D
Best drinking night in a long time, seems like everyone was just smoking cigs and drinking trying to stay cool. We went to our friends house last night to drink (nothing better to do) and it was like a block party everyone was out having a good time.
Gas stations are HORRABLE the one by my mothers house (which had power) has a 1/4 mile line to even get in the station.
Cya guys in a few days.
-
Can't help but giggle at the two most advanced countries in the world having these power losses...
Bagdad has more power than New York.
oh...it's getting a tad chilly in here...I had better turn down my a/c.
:p
(I have a high test on this line...and my lure is coated in some really stinky fish-bait)
-
Originally posted by Skuzzy
Removing a few million people off the overseas pipes/junction makes a bit of a difference.
hmmmm, could it have been a disgruntled gamer who wanted a better connection?;)
-
Originally posted by Sixpence
hmmmm, could it have been a disgruntled gamer who wanted a better connection?;)
Replicant does seem awfully happy. hmmmm :D
-
hmm so the truth is out, replicant caused this problem to improve his connection to aces high:)
-
Originally posted by krazyhorse
hmm so the truth is out, replicant caused this problem to improve his connection to aces high:)
LOL! :D
-
I think someone got the 'A/Cs' mixed up with the 'D/Cs'. Just one mans opinion.:rolleyes:
-
Originally posted by Curval
Can't help but giggle at the two most advanced countries in the world having these power losses...
Bagdad has more power than New York.
oh...it's getting a tad chilly in here...I had better turn down my a/c.
:p
(I have a high test on this line...and my lure is coated in some really stinky fish-bait)
{jiggle....jiggle}
-
LMAO AC/DC BACK IN BLACK:)
-
Well, no-one seems to be biting.
Ironically this outage has turned around and bit me on the backside....so you can all have a laugh at me now.
All my wife's relatives who came to visit are stuck here since Air Canada cancelled all its flights today.
:(
-
Originally posted by Curval
Can't help but giggle at the two most advanced countries in the world having these power losses...
Bagdad has more power than New York.
oh...it's getting a tad chilly in here...I had better turn down my a/c.
:p
(I have a high test on this line...and my lure is coated in some really stinky fish-bait)
ROFL Curval! Yes, the most powerful country on earth is feeling the heat... :D
I remember the big one, New York - 1965. There were about five transformer stations handling the load. They were all maxed out, and when the first one blew, its load was spread out amongst the remaining four, which were then running at 125%! So they blew quickly once the first one had gone.
-
Time to declare war on the North American power grid and maybe build a nuke power plant in Manhatten!
-
lol Curval.. .just have the power back on by the time I visit !
-
Originally posted by Wlfgng
lol Curval.. .just have the power back on by the time I visit !
Who knows man..we may get a hurricane...THAT would make for an interesting vacation for you.
Looks like we have the house btw, so we will have tons of room. Almost a shame because the Condo was nice for visitors, but c'est la vie.
Any idea on a date yet?