Recreation The Blackout Today.... **

was any1 in the blackout today?......i was at my friends house which was lucky, The blackout was like a lot of the east coast....i think and most of the tri-state area..

 

thankfully I am on the west coast....so I wasn't affected...but NYC was crazy today...I heard on the radio that about 80% of NYC was affected by the black out...but I'm not sure

 

Bahaha, look at them *points*.

 

I was in NY. . .
at about 4:10 I was watching TV had a fan on and the computer. . .
and then. . .
everything shutts off. . .
I went to sleep thinking it was only in my house. . .
Someone stops by and knocks on the front door (doorbell didn't work). . .
I wake up and hear what happened. . .
It was so dark at night. . .
People were outside with candles and their car lights on. . .
The electricity just came back where I live around 8:20am.

 

It isn't just New York, several eastern states in the US and we here in Ontario were affected too, all the way up to Ottawa. The power outage is still going on though for some reason this section in my city has power, which will probably only last a few hours :dizzy2:

I hope that Ohio gets water soon.. what was with the New York mayor blaming Canada right when the whole thing started... reminds me of a South Park song.

 

Twilight of the New Gods

If anyone has played .hack, I think they will agree that this situation is like the "Twilight of the New Gods" event from the game's backstory, but on a smaller scale. For the unitiated, this was a sudden power failure all over the world, with monitors flickering and giving people seizures.

I was at work yesterday when the lights went out. The power flickered for a second, then went back on. About a minute later, everything went black. Finding my way out of the factory in the dark was almost fun. They didn't know if the problem was just in the room we were in, or the whole plant, town, or whatever. After the real cause was determined, the machine operators started bringing all the product on the lines back into the freezers (which are powered by a generator). We were supposed to wait two hours, until 6:15 before leaving (that's company policy). This was quickly revised to 5:30. At 5:20, we were all sent home. When I finally got home, after something like a 40 minute walk, there wasn't a whole lot to do, so I just sat and read for a few hours. When it got too dark to read outside, I turned on a camping lantern. Finally, we got power back, so I went inside to make sure my computer still worked. To my relief, it did.
My sister said she heard on CBC that it was not a problem in the Canadian system.

 

I was in a subway car in Toronto for an hour before we were allowed to evacuate. It is not fun to be stuck in a small crowded area with no A.C. and a lot of people with bad B.O. It was hell.

 

ha-ha.-Nelson, The Simpsons

 

I was watching the Toronto news... apartently you could actually see the stars in toronto because of that balck out. ._. The stars... whoa... you have no idea how rare that is...

Luckily I live in Alberta.

Btw, appartently Bush is blaming this on canada. I am gonna kill that son of a ....

 

I live in texas If anyone calls me a cowgirl I'll hurt them, so I was unaffected. i heard that some people lost power in San Fransisco when they rerouted power to New York. I think it was that MS blaster thing.

intresting Fact: it goes active on aug. 16 right. Well Notredamas said the world was going to end an Aug 16 2003.

 

Haha, at work today I was talking with a co-worker, we got on the topic about the Blackout,his whole opinion on the sittuation was that the Mafia was behind everything...anyway~ he detailed it sooo much....that I sort of started believing..lol...but I wont get into the details.

Hey, Fushigi Rockna its nice to meet another person from Alberta ^^ since im from there too.

 

im in england so i didn't have to worry about it. thank god

 

Too many theories for now. By the time its all over, it will be 2004 already. Your best bet is to live as best as you could and take it easy if you still gots no power.

 

I was at work when it happened, around 4:20pm here. And I was so close to finishing my shift --_--v I didn't think it effected such a big area until I listened to the radio at home. (I'm still wondering how the radio worked when the power was out...unless they have backup generators or something...) Anywhoo, got my power back the next day around 3am. I almost thought it was gonna out again today during the thunderstorm. Course I was at work again --_--vvv

 

You guys over there with your black out now.... Sheesh. Everything famous starts here in California. Black outs were so last year, get with the times guys

Just foolin, hope you all get your power back. Toodles!