BLACKOUT!!! in NYC, Eastern Canada, etc.
 

from cnn.com
I feel bad for all of those people there and the peeps we got on the forums that live there wont be able to respond to this right now.
Major power outage hits New York, other large cities
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck dozens of cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.

Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m.

State officials said the Niagara-Mohawk power grid was overloaded. The grid provides power for New York and stretches into Canada. The officials said the outage is a natural occurrence and not related to terrorism.

Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street was shut down. All area airports and the Long Island Railroad were also affected.

The Federal Aviation Administration grounded planes at all three New York area airports because the blackout affected security screening facilities. The FAA reported planes also were grounded at the Toronto airport. The airports were operating on backup power, officials said.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed the outage was not related to terrorism or an accident.

"The good news is, Con Ed's facilities have shut down automatically, which they're programmed to do," he said. "No damage was done to the Con-Ed facility."

Bloomberg said it was unknown how long the outage may last.

Thousands of people could be seen leaving buildings and walking into the streets. New York subways were reported stopped and people were trapped in the cars.

"We are going to have a situation where people are going to have to walk a long distance. They need to be careful," Bloomberg said. "Our advice is to go home, open up your windows, drink a lot of liquids."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/pow...age/index.html

I saw it too. Traffic is at a standstill. Hundreds of people walking the streets to go home. That's gotta suck!!! Glad to be here down south ya'll!:D

MisterT

Well according to some states news the outage accurred because the power grid in "Central Canada" went down
:wtf:
Since when is southern Ontario central Canada????
:wtf:

LOL central Canada is in the Prairies...Saskatchewan and Manitoba...southern Ontario is the East hahahaah

Stupid to have all the same power supplied in the large amount of areas! Didn't we learn any thing from California blackouts? I know in CA it was a different scenario, but don't put all your eggs in one basket. The forum is probably half full do to people still stuck in traffic!! Half of them are the ones with all the performance mods. Guess it won't get them any where. 0-60 in 5.9 seconds, just got to get through bottleneck traffic first! When I had my full sized GMC Jimmy you could see far enough ahead to tell if there are any cops are coming so you could drive up on the side walk and make the next turn for a short cut. I am sure all short cuts were not short with all the congestion! YIKES!

MisterT

:rofl: poor guys. Im glad to be in south florida.

As you all probable know by now, We have power again!!!!
Yes, it really sucked. Every thing, I mean every thing went down. The only question was for how long. 5 hours, NOT BAD. Glad to be back

That's frickin funny!!
Seriously, too bad for those people. I hope every member here got home from work all right!!

yea I know THATS MY HOME!!!! :( :(

were u stuck in traffic? It looked crazy as hell.

yea i had to work at the casino today, and we run on backup generators, but it was busy as hell. I think people were just coming because its air conditioned...I was like, ah nuts.

Now class this is why we don't plug too many things in to 1 outlet..:D

Bush musta surged our power with his massive vibrator. i mean, dude needs to focus on his shit within the border instead of rewarding deuces of thousands-millions of dollars to ppl who kill paki's while we have people here eating rats and living in cardboard boxes. I haven't watched the news yet, but expect there are a buncha geezers that died from heat stroke and suffocation. The gov. never does anything about something until something terrible happens.

they need a good cocksmack

That blackout sucked.

I'm sittin there at work, then I stood up 2 look out the window. Then turned around, next thing I know everyones not sitting down anymore so im thinking WTF is going on lol. I also noticed that the monitors and power was gone. Couldnt tell right away b/c it was very sunny. I was all calm until everyone starting grabbing their bags freaking out and saying let's get out of here thinking it might be some attack again. Then I had 2 sprint down 32 flights of stairs then run in the heat to an overloaded ferry. As soon as I got 2 jersey I had to wait another 45 minutes just to get on a bus home. Thank god I didn't get stranded. But I'm here writing this story b/c there is no power in the building so I'm staying home. I thought I'd just share my little story with u guys.

Yeah, this blackout was fun.:rolleyes: I was driving home on the NYS Thruway when it happened, and have to get off exit 16, which is home to the largest and busiest outlet mall in the country. Try getting through 5 stoplights that don't work with about 500 cars and at least 400 are foreigners who don't have a clue what to do. W/E though, I did what any american would do, hit up the gas station for a couple 18 packs before they stopped selling them and got really drunk with a few people. It was kind of funny to see how people really can't handle themselves without technology. An eye-opener. And pretty exciting knowing I was around for the largest blackout in U.S. History.

I know there were alot of people affected by this, but I feel bad for New Yorkers especially. You guys keep getting it right up the ass! New York IMHO has turned into a good place to be FROM, not a good place to go to. I will never visit there. Someone please send me a nice ballcap and a shot glass please? Wonder what this will do to the "great" economy this time? Anymore, a dog poo's in the road and we loose everything.:(

That's BULLSHIT!!!! where not sending you SHIT!!!!

the blackout was crazy, I was at work when it happened and everything shut down ..
Then when I got off work it was like crazy trying to drive in the streets. It really makes you appreciate stop lights , because you have so many Jerk-offs that don't realize that there is an intersection and they don't stop .. They just whizz right through like asswhipes.

But once home everything was cool .. My family was ok and that is what counted .

Thats wassup, even with all this crazy stuff going down there was still tons of fun to go down. Everyone came outside. Girls everywhere, people throwing pennies from of the 39 th floor. People took there boom boxes out play old Nas classics, and some new girl called Conya Doss
AHHHHHHH SHYT had me doing the C-Walk across the basketball court.
LOL :laugh: Let me shut up
I jumped in my ride and turned on the AC and played playstation 2 Hahahahahahaha
Max Payne is fun !

My family protected the ride because everyone was eye'ing my baby ( Protege 5 ) Knowing they wanted to lute it so bad. But after i heard my Uncle cuss from the top floor that the water stopped working as well because some motor pushed it to the top floor i was like its time to bounce. It hurts to run mad flights of steps. But its all good but i got my ass out of NY after once i exposed the Tv's in the ride it was time to go back to Maryland.

Traffic was all backed up .... But lucky i joined the few crazy people that drove the shoulder.

Thats Wassup :D !!!!!!!!!!

Did he say classic NAS?? I don't think that can be referred to as classic, Junior. Anywho, I feel your pain cause the damn AC at work today is all fucked up!!!

Nas not Classic ,, what are you talking about..
You don't remeber when his original name was NASTY NAS ....


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on another note

Last night I had to drop a co-worker home .. So while driving through the Bronx, it seemed like everybody and their mother was outside. I mean like every block I passed through ...
I went through gun hill , down paulding by east 214 and what not ... mad people outside. not to mention over by Webster. Shawn knows the area ... there were like tons of people .. but you know what ... NO LOOTING ..
so for all the, "nyc is gonna loot" comments you can stuff em cause we had much more class than that..
we know how some of yall think ..

I barely know of him as NAS man. I am not a big hip hop fan. I never really got the whole genre. But maybe it's cause I'm old and I grew up in the days of grunge??

Flanels or Cartigans anyone??

sorry! I actually made that comment thinking you were into Rap .. then in that case you are right , because you are of a different genra , than I am ...
hehe your still cool though:D

dude that sucks ass man.

how long was your power actually out? i find this absolutly ridiculous that you guys (americans) blow this WAY outta porportion, bigist black out ever? wtf comon ive had no power to my house for 3 days in the ice storm a few years back and cnn didnt stomp down my door for an interview

yes its sad that people have to suffer in the heat and yes its a big inconveince, but why are you calling it the great blackout of 2003, i mean wtf?! us canadians dont really care, "meh the powers out lets drink the beer before it gets warm"

its just an power outtage and everyone got thro it fine, no biggie you got power now, well to a degree

i dunno i find that the media have nothing else to report on so they blow this way out of porportion to make it seem bigger than it is

True...A miracle for NBC news. If someones daughter doesn't get kidnapped, they don't have any interesting stories to report.

:fu: :squint fi :mach: To the news industry.

I was just stating the facts, according to all the papers. I didn't say the longest blackout, I said the biggest, meaning most widespread. And good for you for going 3 days, and the reason cnn didn't stomp down your door is b/c they don't give a sh#t about you. "You guys (americans)" as you put it, didn't blow this out of proportion, the media did, so don't stereotype us. And you would care when you live 30 mins from a city where it is a central target for terrorism and half your country loses power. And I would like to see where you can say that we are calling it the great blackout of 2003, i don't see that anywhere.

When i said Classic Nas i ment his first Album which is considered a classic SINCE THIS IS LIKE 2003 ...........................................

Also its a classic because it was old school, so to me its a classic.
Not like the studio shyt most of you listen to now a days

So Junior this :the finge

People always trying to bring down the shit that i say

DAMN

US Americans need our power cause us Americans need to work and go to school and eat and do the usual things that YOU do ...
GET my DRIFT

On South Whidbey Island we lost power all the time. Some lasted for 3 days some times. damn wind and trees. owell mistakes do happen no need for some big look into the power grid. we need more power plants. but most of you tree huggin dont put it in my back yard people will not let them. and in some cases want less power plants. anywho owell:)