Power Outages In the Eastern US

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:17 am

Wow. Well, good then... (Yes, I am confused.)

MorGan · Post by **MorGan** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:52 am

Well if fallout was real I wouldnt have to work at all... (ive been collecting bottlecaps since i was five) And anyway all the lazy bums could just be raiders... Raiders dont need to work.. Actually raiders dont even have to think.

Grey Fil · Post by **Grey Fil** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 12:37 pm

I have been reading for years the warnings from some experts in the internet on how the North American powergrid is old and saturated. I bet they are now all smilling and saying "I told you so".

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 1:53 pm

Grey Fil wrote:I have been reading for years the warnings from some experts in the internet on how the North American powergrid is old and saturated. I bet they are now all smilling and saying "I told you so".

I thought they were gonna blame it on Canada, guess not then?

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 2:53 pm

But...weren't they talking about some power plant or something in Canada...?

jerman999 · Post by **jerman999** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 2:56 pm

Lightning strike at the Mohawk Niagra Power Station (or was it Niagra Mohawk?) stateside caused the cascading reaction that brought down the system

satanisgreat · Post by **satanisgreat** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 2:57 pm

I guess some power plant or something got hit by lightning in Lake Errie or somthing.

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 3:02 pm

Didn't they say it was a fire or some crap like that?

axltrauts · Post by **axltrauts** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:03 pm

just an accident (or whatever) did all that, i wonder....

uhm

hehe

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:33 pm

bloodbathmaster2 wrote:In all honesty, I'm glad the news isn't focusing on death and terror for once.

In Detroit -- IIRC it was back during the '50s -- there was a paper that printed nothing but good news. It went under quicker than you could bat an eye.

While a lot of people complain about the rather negative character of the bulk of news reports, this is actually what John/Jane Q. Public wants. It takes their minds off of their own problems, reminding them that there are people worse off than they are.

Personally, what I find more annoying about the news than anything else is its formulaic nature. This is especially prevalent at the local news level, where you always have the same national headlines/local headlines/sports/human interest format. Yuck...

OTB

Ghetto Goose · Post by **Ghetto Goose** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:42 pm

Did someone say looting?

*runs*

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:05 pm

Let's see, I need a new video card... A new monitor, and OH that's a looks like a TERRIFIC new CPU!

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:43 pm

It's funny how the only place to have any rioting was Ontario. It was pretty quiet here in the US, especially in New York.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:21 pm

Yea major blackouts in Canada too, looting in Ottawa... just got back now after sweltering 24 hours minus air conditioning. :/

Nuclear Gandhi · Post by **Nuclear Gandhi** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:27 pm

I like you Canadians, I shwear, you gots stylezz oldschool.

satanisgreat · Post by **satanisgreat** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:50 pm

Ghetto Goose wrote:Did someone say looting?

*runs*

Yeah, I think like twenty people were arrested for looting. Maybe Ghetto Goose was one of them.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:51 pm

In Ontario, atoga. Quebec and the rest of Canada had no outages whatsoever.

I attribute this to the following mathematical relation:

HydroQuebec > YUO

iohkus · Post by **iohkus** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:59 am

that's because quebec runs off of water mills...

i like how we were told by our gov't officials to conserve watter by not flushing pee

"If it's yellow, let it mellow."

oh and wtf?

Mad Max RW wrote:It's funny how the only place to have any rioting was Ontario. It was pretty quiet here in the US, especially in New York.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 4:24 am

No rioting in Toronto, either. MMRW knows his post-apoc games, and we love him for that, but he's not much on anything else.

Iokhus, I don't know who told you not to flush your urine, but that is not a concern at all despite hydroelectric power. If anything, it just adds more liquid into the water area system dealie to go into the dams.

Grey Fil · Post by **Grey Fil** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 5:10 am

Silver I said North America not USA, but the powergrids of the USA and Canada are interlocked and can actually be considered as one. Anyway whats the diference between USAans and Canadians? They look all the same to me!

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