Power outages

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Lucky
I asked a question to a good friend who works for a power company in cincinatti, and who is right now working on this problems as part of her companies other plants in ohio:

(What's happening)

xxxx: I'm not sure.
*** Auto-response sent to sunshinedmb: I am currently away from the computer.
xxxx: i'm doing my best to find out.
xxxx: the only thing i KNOW is that nothing natural would cause the grid to fail.

The switches and breakers are well over 50 years old.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: optoman
My power just came back on. I am just outside of Rochester, NY. Most people here shrugged it off and had a beer.

Thanks Opto, they said many of the Cities on the Canadian side are coming back online too.

 

[Wag]

The news channels need to say when they have these security consultants on preaching "gloom and doom" they're only drumming up business for themselves.

 

[jaydee]

ABC is now reporting that the power grid may have been hacked?

 

[RossMAN]

Toledo, Ohio's power is slowly being restored.

 

[Wag]

jaydee- that's exactly what I was talking about.

 

[mjquilly]

RossMan:

Are you from Toledo? I'm working downtown there now, we still have no power. I have heard that towns around here a getting power back though...

 

[optoman]

The power companies should stop using WinME to run the power grids.

 

[optoman]

Things could be worse. You could be stuck on this roller coaster in the hot sun.

Look all the way to the left side.
Different angle.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Wow, they had to shut down 10 nuclear power plants as part of this.:Q

:Q..and we thought WSECURITY PATCH rollouts were bad...

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: mjquilly
RossMan:

Are you from Toledo? I'm working downtown there now, we still have no power. I have heard that towns around here a getting power back though...

Nope Portland, Oregon here.

 

[BadNewsBears]

Turned off the clean water pumps in Livonia MI. No water!!!!! Or power!!!!

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: optoman
Things could be worse. You could be stuck on this roller coaster in the hot sun.

Look all the way to the left side.
Different angle.

The bugs on the second one are scary.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: optoman
Things could be worse. You could be stuck on this roller coaster in the hot sun.

Look all the way to the left side.
Different angle.

The bugs on the second one are scary.

ditto, they are.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: Ylen13

Originally posted by: AbsoluteParadigm
What can cause a power outage that large?

terrorist attack

or lazy maitence people

 

[optoman]

I keep getting this picture in my head of homer simpson spilling his coffee all over the power grid main computer and him saying doh.

 

[dighn]

it's the aliens.

 

[jurzdevil]

Originally posted by: optoman
I keep getting this picture in my head of homer simpson spilling his coffee all over the power grid main computer and him saying doh.

better yet, the mug root beer commercial from a few years ago with the janitor singing the song "people all over the world now, join hands" and flicking the ower switch on and off.

 

[oniq]

Lost my 130day uptime here in CT. Was over 2 hours, backup power just couldn't cut it.

 

[Luagsch]

just phoned with a friend of mine who lives in manhattan (it seems i was lucky to get through to his cell-phone). he said that he's gonna open a bottle of champagne because he got earlier out of work:Q yeah, he's a funny guy

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: optoman
I keep getting this picture in my head of homer simpson spilling his coffee all over the power grid main computer and him saying doh.

or Fondue.... There goes Albany!

 

[Pepsi90919]

global news said earlier that the prime minister's office issued a statement saying a lightning strike hit something on niagara mohawk's generating station on the american side of niagara falls. i find that statement quite queer, considering it's sunny and 30*C out with no chance of rain here.

 

[Legendary]

I live in Rockland county and we just got power back, I think a lot of other places got power back as well. The word was, like Pepsi said, that a lightning strike hit the Niagara power plant

 

[IcemanJer]

Best quote from a news article about this:

"TORONTO (CP) -- At 5:16 p.m. ET on Nov. 9, 1965, the lights began to wink out in Ontario and soon after all along the eastern seaboard. And they stayed off in many areas, including Manhattan, for up to 13 hours.

People turning to portable radios heard sour-sounding music as stations played records on rough back-up power systems. Commuters were stranded, suppers ruined and nine months later there was a noticeable increase in babies born in the affected area."

linky

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Legendary
I live in Rockland county and we just got power back, I think a lot of other places got power back as well. The word was, like Pepsi said, that a lightning strike hit the Niagara power plant

except the weather conditions here in the niagara region are clear and sunny.