Power outages reported in Northeast, including New York City, and other cities including Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan. Details soon.
Our home office is in Stamford, and our e-mail and Internet come across the frame relay from there. They went down about twenty minutes ago. (I'm using dial-up right now)
It's a blackout, people, not a nuclear bomb. No need to worry if people are ok. Remember, this world lived without electricity for thousands of years.
cnn news Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Ottawa, Ontario. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m. Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street were shut down, including all area airports and the Long Island Railroad. The airports were operating on back-up power and operations were reported to be normal, officials said. The New York City Police Department said they were trying to determine what happened. A Con Edison transformer on East 14th Street in Manhattan was afire, CNN learned. 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. EDIT: oops, nevermind, legrouper.
I'm watching cool shots of NYC with thousands of people walking around wall to wall traffic. It's crazy.
they say that there's 3 Power Grids in the U.S. and Canada... 1. West Power Grid 2. East Power Grid 3. Texas Power Grid
yeah, but there weren't thousands of people trapped underground in the subways with little ventilation thousands of years ago.
Yeah, and they didn't have taco bell thousands of years ago with people trapped in subways with little ventilation.....
That is correct. They are referred to as interconnections. The one in Texas doesn't cover the entire state, for example Beaumont is considered in the "eastern interconnection", not ERCOT (the "Texas interconnection"). But yes, Texas is the greatest state in the union!!
