Who here doesn't have power?? I know I do. Anybody up in the east caost know anything?

what?

Their was a major power outage and alot of states are without power. From what I undestand New York is one of those states

we're doing fine. how the hell are you on a computer? laptop?

power tools? I have..

I'm in Texas....this happened on the East coast. New York, Jersey, Ohio, and other states. They said on the news that some transformer caught on fire.

A transformer? Man that'd suck pretty fgg'n hard if a single transformer could bring down multiple states!

We have power in South carolina

I HAVE THE POWER!!!

http://www.he-man.org/news_images/heman.jpg

The worst black out in historey was caused by one failed relay back in the 60's

My ass itches..

Yeah big black out due to the power grid failing....all the way from parts of Canada to NY. Get ready for mad looting.

I bet Vosko ran into the transformer. He breaks everything!

<edit> OK, not multiple states, but multiple Cities. New York city, Cleveland, Detroit, & "other cities" even in Canada.



It's noted on CNN.com but no details yet.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.out...reut/index.html

Damn people are walking home, thousands of people walking the streets.

man those breakerers.

buffalo, Syracuse, detroit, nyc, toronto, ottawa

I'd hate to be in an elevator right now.

Not if I was stuck in it with her!

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I would convinve her that we would have to repopulate the earth!

Which one of you fuckers just grabbed my ass.. You have 15 minuites to let go..

oh no!.. I am gonna have to ahve it amputated now..

I am confused, how will they reply without power? Even if they have a laptop the cable or dsl model will be poop.

This had occurred to me as well.



J

Uplink via cell.. cell sites are on independent backup generators. Also, any buliding that has backup generators, which is more than you probably think. Emergency systems stay online, and phones do too.

My guess is, the east coast folks are home and yer right I would be surprised if they had generators in their houses.

Did ya notice how a single problem in NY caused blackouts in Cincinatti? That's the great thing about being on the Western Power Grid (as most of us are).. Cascading blackouts caused by voltage, load and frequency problems won't even make it here. There's a line of AC-DC-AC Conversion Ties that run down the middle of the country, seperating the east grid from the west. Major cascading blackouts will stop there. Same thing for people in Texas, but Texas is actually on a seperate grid from both the east and west grids. Heck, Texas generators don't even run the same frequencies as the rest of the country!

Well it was a joke.... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/dry.png

HAHAHA!! FOOLS!! Laptop and dial-up to the rescue!! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png



There's some kind of fire at the Niagara Falls generating station. It's not just individual cities that are down, everywhere is. Cities are all that matter to CNN, though, plus the fact that they think Toroonto and Ottawa are the only cities in Canada. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif

Haha...cause Texas is almost its own country. We are bigger then france you know!

I never let a little power outage keep me off the net. I've got a big honkin' Best Fortress UPS. Runs my desktop system for about 90 minutes. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

they're not?

Welp....Don't waste it all at once cause I think it is almost at the 90 minute mark! It did happen almost 2 hours ago

I don't think he's in the affected area..

It's a part of the big conspiracy to keep my car from running. I'd planned on getting the oil changed and doing some tuning tonight. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif



I don't think the gas station has backup power, so now I'm stuck. I need that oil change before I do much more driving https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/angry.png Oil is full of gas.



Well, I better go charge the laptop battery. Found an outlet that's on the backup power grid in my apartment building for some reason.

Good thing ohio hasnt lost po