August 14, 2003, 17:24
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reports that Toledo and Connecticut down, Boston doesnt appear to be.
BBC reports people trapped in subways and elevators in NYC.
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August 14, 2003, 17:24
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Naw, Bloomer's can't be wrong 
hope no one gets hurt from this
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August 14, 2003, 17:25
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Laura tells me she's seeing parts of a power plant in flames on CNN.
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Thats supposed to be smoke from an automatic shutdown. 
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August 14, 2003, 17:25
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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. "
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is this realistic? a failure in one single power plant can switch off the whole north east of America?
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August 14, 2003, 17:25
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She's saying "flames" not "smoke." Going home soon... will check out.
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August 14, 2003, 17:26
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Originally posted by Richelieu
I think someone messed up. French Canadian TV is (mostly) based in Montreal and they're all live and reporting about the story.
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Montréal is up... Well, I'm not down!
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August 14, 2003, 17:27
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this isn't going to be good 
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August 14, 2003, 17:29
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Still nothing about it on FoxNews.com by 5:28pm, EST.
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August 14, 2003, 17:32
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FOX 
hope they get it back on before the sun goes down... For I know that if the power goes out in California we all feel the need to riot.
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August 14, 2003, 17:33
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ABC has a board to check in = apparently Hartford went down briefly and is back, western Mass flickered.
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August 14, 2003, 17:39
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I think i'm going to go in the middle of the bridge and moon Ottawa.
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August 14, 2003, 17:40
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My laptop has a battery.
The 14th Street power station was on fire about half an hour ago. Still no power.
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August 14, 2003, 17:41
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My laptop has a battery.
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drats. if there was one person I wish was affected it would be you 
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August 14, 2003, 17:43
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Originally posted by The Templar
My laptop has a battery.
The 14th Street power station was on fire about half an hour ago. Still no power.
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so telephone is working? sorry this must sound like a stupid question for you.
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August 14, 2003, 17:46
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so telephone is working? sorry this must sound like a stupid question for you.
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Yep. I'm on dial-up.
What I really wish was working right now was my air conditioner. Even my cat isn't moving. She's parked herself by her water dish.
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August 14, 2003, 17:54
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3152451.stm
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Mr Bloomberg said: "I can tell you 100 percent sure that there is no evidence as of this moment whatsoever of any terrorism."
He urged New Yorkers to make their own way homes.
"It may be well into the evening before power comes back on," he said.
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His attempt to be both absolutely definite and guardedly cautious appears to have fried Mr. Bloomberg's ability to structure sentences.
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August 14, 2003, 17:54
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There's an extra news broadcast about this on Swedish TV right now. They say that when one powerplant went out then the others were overloaded and fell like domino bricks.
People in NY got a 9/11 Deja Vu when they had to walk all the way home from work instead of using public transportation.
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August 14, 2003, 17:55
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Well, at least people seem to be keeping under control and not going nuts:
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Canadian cities struggle with power loss
Last Updated Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:47:19
TORONTO - The power outage that hit much of eastern North America Thursday hit several Canadian cities, including Ottawa, Toronto and much of Southern Ontario.
Lights and power went out on Parliament Hill and people were asked to leave the buildings.
In the country?s largest city, Toronto, power went out as many people were getting ready to leave downtown office towers.
Andrew Nichol, a CBC reporter who works at the TSX exchange in Toronto, says security guards asked people to evacuate the exchange building, but later told them they could stay.
?There was no real sense of panic,? Nichol said. He said traffic in the downtown streets was normal for the time of day, unlike New York, where panicked residents jammed the highways in cars and on foot..
The subways in Toronto are not working and many people are trapped in trains underground in the 30 C heat.
Traffic is moving in the city?s core, but traffic lights are not working. There were no police directing traffic at most intersections.
There are no reports of looting or public safety concerns in Toronto so far.
Major hospital throughout the city are on backup power, but none of them was reporting any problems.
In Ottawa, traffic was moving well. The city has no subway or streetcar system and buses were moving at a normal rush hour rate.
Quebec is just across the river and power in the province is still on. Many people who work in the nation?s capital live in Quebec.
Reporters were not able to immediately get in touch with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien for comment.
Power was also out as far west as Windsor. Several cities and towns to the north of Southern Ontario were also out of power.
The power failure left telephones operating, but wiped out high speed Internet service in most areas.
Written by CBC News Online staff
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My compliments to the drivers in Ottawa and Toronto for seemingly keeping things running as smoothly as possible.
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August 14, 2003, 17:59
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There are no reports of looting or public safety concerns in Toronto so far.
Major hospital throughout the city are on backup power, but none of them was reporting any problems.
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August 14, 2003, 18:00
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See, now I'm getting paranoid...had an Arabic guy come into my work today to enquire about getting his car fixed...but then he said "I'm leaving for the Middle East tomorrow and don't know when/if I'm coming back"....
What's the big hurry, huh? Huh?
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August 14, 2003, 18:00
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Where did Zylka go again?
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August 14, 2003, 18:01
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Wo...age030814.html
Sounds pretty bad, but they don't mention the doomsday stuff like "power plant in flames."
It's odd, though, that one of the more everyday impacts of September 11 is that EVERY report about EVERY disaster has to come after "This was not a terrorist attack!"...
(BTW, this incident only expresses the utter failure of our power system today. I'd say more but I'm going to go turn on the boob tube and see if CNBC is covering it)
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August 14, 2003, 18:02
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See, now I'm getting paranoid...
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Didn't they just arrest to guys on the "watch list" in Seattle today, who were in the country illegally from Canada, and trying to book pasage to JFK this morning? That plane would be getting there just about now...
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August 14, 2003, 18:02
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Originally posted by SuperSneak
See, now I'm getting paranoid...had an Arabic guy come into my work today to enquire about getting his car fixed...but then he said "I'm leaving for the Middle East tomorrow and don't know when/if I'm coming back"....
What's the big hurry, huh? Huh?
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August 14, 2003, 18:04
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Hmmm...well, not being a terrorist, I don't know what the advantage would be to knocking out power, unless it was the precursor to some conflagoration that was hoped to be much worse because of gridlock and bad communication?
I suppose some big fires would be a real nightmare right now, for sure.
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August 14, 2003, 18:07
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There doesn't appear to be a lot of gridlock, at least from the video feed of NYC on CNBC. For once, New Yorkers are doing something orderly...they're walking home pretty nicely
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August 14, 2003, 18:09
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I wonder how many tonnes of fat that will be burned in NY alone?
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August 14, 2003, 18:12
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Bloomberg said power is coming back.
I wonder why he thinks that his advice to NYers will be helpful. They aren't able to watch TV.
Maryland, Delaware and Southern Pennsylvania are all OK.
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August 14, 2003, 18:13
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??? it's mostly silicone and bow-tox I thought
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August 14, 2003, 18:13
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Some of them might have radios. I bet they've got radio stations in NY playing his advice
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