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anyone know why all of manhattan has no power at the moment? Just got a call from a relative and they heard something about smoke on the east side... ANyway, no power, traffic lights or anything city wide. Any one know anything? I know it's not tech related, but still...
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Power outages strike major U.S. and Canadian cities including New York, Detroit and Toronto. Thousands on streets. Details soon.
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TORONTO (CP) - TORONTO (CP) - A widespread power outage hit Ontario and the eastern United States at about 4:15 p.m. Thursday.
Blackouts were reported in Toronto, as well as Ottawa in the province's eastern region, Windsor in the west and North Bay in the northern part of Ontario. Parliament Hill had power knocked out leaving scant emergency lighting.
Hydro officials could not immediately be reached to explain the blackout.
A power outage also hit the New York City area Thursday, affecting certain areas from Long Island to Westchester County.
"We have no idea how extensive it is," said an Office for Emergency Management.
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Massive power outages in New York and other cities due to electrical overload, not terrorism, NY city mayor says.
From what I heard a transformer was overloaded and for some reason the other power grids didn't kick in to take over the job of supplying power
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thanks for the quick replies putting my mind at ease somewhat. Feel sorry for those poor people stuck in the subway though.... they haven't got a clue as to what's happening probably.
Yea... the media is over-hyping the event.. I'm suprised riots haven't broken out yet, although people are mobbing the streets wildly...
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It affected New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, Hartford
New York reported that the outage may have been triggered by an overload at the Niagara Mohawk power grid near Buffalo, N.Y.
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Yea... the media is over-hyping the event.. I'm suprised riots haven't broken out yet, although people are mobbing the streets wildly...
i have to agree with you there. I live in philly and a least twice in the summer we have power outages it's not uncommon. :)
just came on for me. but that was the second time today from 8 till around ten, at least where i was at the time, bergen couny nj. No riots, everybody was cool. getting out of the city was a mess but everyone took it in stride. glad i wasn't in an elevator arount the 80th floor when it happened
Hey Hey It's midnight friday aug 12th. and power just came on for me. We were out for about 8 hours. You really forget how much you rely on power til your without it for a little bit. I know in SSM, Ont, my mom still has no power and it'll be a bit yet.
Anyways to add my 2 cents on the issue, over the next little bit I am going to apologize to all Americans in advance, because the mayor of New York had to nerve to get on Live TV and blame Canada for the outage. This shows me how little respect American officials have for us and it hurts me. The outtage was started when an American Power Plant failed (reasons are still technically unconfirmed - fire, explosion, lightning, hell even blaster was mentioned) and Hydro One (Canada's Crown Corp.) got caught up from interlinking grids between the countries. The grid was knocked out because our power plants attempted to cover the loss. I'm very disappointed in America right now. Anyways now for sleep because work comes early.
G'nite ..
HT
This almost reminds me of 1964 or was it 1965?
We still haven't learned.
i had actually a good time today ....when the power went down we were sent home from work ... me and about 16 male and 3 female friend gathered on a parking lot about 300ft from my apartments and we bought 3 cases Heineken (7-11 was open all night ) and enyojed the night :) ...
anyone else has some stories to share ? .....opinions? whereabouts? terrorists :D ?
I hope they find out what exactly caused the outage soon. every time I read an article on it. Canada is blaming the US and US is blaming Canada.
Well, we just got power in Downtown Toronto. The last time this happened was November 9, 1965 and there were riots, etc. This time things seemed calmer. Individuals in Toronto took up directing traffic and people remained calm. We managed to find a place that had pizza (we got the last one) and for the most part we didn't see too much profiteering (we saw one hotdog stand selling hotdogs for $3, up $1 from it's regular $2 -- we're reporting him).
Maybe this is a good time to start a discussion about whether privatising 'vital' services is/was a good idea or not...
What if people start sueing the electricity company responsible for the outage (if any), and that company goes broke? Who's going to supply electricity to those parts of the country then? Just some things to ponder...
Well, that's happened in parts of Canada (Ontario specifically). Power Generation, aka Ontario Hydro, is the largest distributor of power in Ontario and was formerly publically owned. I don't know if they can be sued over this as a) they informed the public months ago when we had our first heat wave in Ontario to be careful with their usage b) from reports I've been hearing a plant caught fire. Acts of God are probably covered in the agreement.
Given how rapidly they are returning power -- they had said 100% within hours rather than days -- I'd be surprised if anyone did sue.