Massive Power outages in eastern Canada and US

by **Face** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 1:31 am

I think someone spilled their Molsen on the console at the electrical plant on the Canadian side

by **lil_Tigga** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 3:51 am

i too live in toronto and i just got my power back now

by **NightVision** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:21 am

We lost power at 4:14pm we had power restore at 12:30 am.
I found most people were very good about the blackout. I had to drive home from work and had to go through 45 lights and people were very good about letting the next guy go !!
When I got home all the neighbors were outside and we
talked until it got dark. That's the longest I every talked to
my neighbors. At night we listened to a battary power AM radio
by candle light from the basement where it was cool.

by **Evan** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:44 am

You know what I don't understand..

Why does it take something like this for people, even strangers, to get together and be nice?

by **Agent-Commando** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:53 am

Originally posted by Evan
You know what I don't understand..

Why does it take something like this for people, even strangers, to get together and be nice?

Yep, last time this happened and people were acting nice all around for New Yorkers was 9/11....

by **Gusbenz3000** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:03 am

New York is back on-line and so am I...man it was bad no lights..no computer no TV!

by **(>Tool<)** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:31 am

Originally posted by Evan
You know what I don't understand..

Why does it take something like this for people, even strangers, to get together and be nice?

well gusbenz should have answered that one, I think its just that people get far too into their electronics or their favorite TV shows to bother with neighbors. then when they need something to do cause the power is out, they'll gladly bother the neighbor, who also wants to bother them back, so since they're both taking the place of eachothers entertainment, they become entertained. :lol:

by **Gusbenz3000** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:42 am

Yeah tool is right when the power was out people would head outside drink beer have fun it was a huge party. Then the power came on at about 8:30am today and now no one is having a party...it's friday and work. It was hard to sleep when it's 90 outside and you have no AC.

by **Cpl. Bingham** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:01 am

Yeah, it seems like disaster brings people together. Let's go around North Amderica causing destruction, and before you know it, world peace will be achieved!

Blow up the Hoover Dam, topple the Washington Monument, slam a few passenger trains together....... why, it sounds like bliss already.

by **Camel toe joe** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:15 am

Now you guys know what it's like where I live

...however if the power went out it would probably take at least 3 days...oh and so much fun when no water...

by **Chacal** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:49 am

Originally posted by Evan
You know what I don't understand..

Why does it take something like this for people, even strangers, to get together and be nice?

TV and the Internet have killed that. Now we're all isolated even though we live together. That's why there's no porches anymore in front of houses and living rooms have been replaced with TV rooms or home theaters.

Reading books like Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine makes me long for those simpler times when people were always acting like in Nightvision's post.

I've just spent a month in a place with no TV but plenty of human interaction (real, not virtual), and I'd gladly live my whole life like that.

by **Gusbenz3000** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:59 am

Yeah it seems when you go ask someone something and they are in front of the tube they will get made a yell "Get the hell out I'm doing something!" Computers are taking over....

by **(>Tool<)** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:11 am

Originally posted by Cpl. Bingham
Yeah, it seems like disaster brings people together. Let's go around North Amderica causing destruction, and before you know it, world peace will be achieved!

Blow up the Hoover Dam, topple the Washington Monument, slam a few passenger trains together....... why, it sounds like bliss already.

hey leave the washington monument alone, you might seriously hurt people,

by **Edogg** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 2:23 pm

hello people of the internet....I just got my power back here in Michigan.

It was more than just detroit, they declared a Statewide emergency. No streetlights, no air conditioning, no gas pumps, no atms.....blah blah etc. etc.

by **shockwave203** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 3:55 pm

well not everyone got along so well. US officials blamed Canada, Canadian officials blamed the US.

A lighting bolt struck a power plant in Niagara falls on the US side right? That's what I've seen reported. Funny how an isolated event like that can trigger the whole grid to go down, making 50 million people lose power.

Massive Power outages in eastern Canada and US

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