STORM2K

Cleveland, New York City, Ohio, Canada? Do we have any members there?

It wasn't just the cities. I live 30 miles SW of Albany, which was affected. My wife had no power for a time. Then periodic brownouts. Haven't heard how things are now, but it was the entire area that was probably affected. I am in the country. But the shop I work at has a generator for full time power, so I thought, when my wife called that we forgot to pay the light bill.

Checking the chat map, not too many on this forum David; but it probably includes 40% or more of Wright-Weather posters...there's a lot of folks in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, northern Ohio, and Michigan on that board (and I think JoshL lives in Toronto, Canada).

I'm surprised nothing has been reported from PA yet...being in the Northeast and all. Will be interesting to see if these blackouts continue to spread...hopefully not! :o

stephanie is in new jersey.

NEW YORK: Much of New York state was without power, including New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was likely the blackout started in the Niagara Falls area and quickly spread. Across Manhattan, people poured out of skyscrapers and started trudging home on foot. Traffic lights were out, and subways and buses stopped. New York's three major airports were without power.

NEW JERSEY: Much of northern New Jersey was affected. Train service was canceled and the state emergency management office was activated. There were no reported power problems in the eight southern New Jersey counties covered by Conectiv, the company said.

OHIO: Power was out across a wide stretch of northern Ohio, from Toledo to Cleveland. Other cities reporting power outages included Akron, Elyria, Mansfield, Sandusky and Tiffin .FirstEnergy spokesman Matt Slagle said the company was getting reports of outages from customers throughout its coverage area in northeast Ohio. The company has 700,000 customers.

MICHIGAN: Power was out from Detroit to the state capital in Lansing. Detroit Metropolitan Airport remained open with some delays. The outage, closed the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel between the United States and Canada.

CONNECTICUT: Power flickered across Connecticut and some areas of the state lost electric service completely. Northeast Utilities said nearly 58,000 customers were without power. Fairfield County and Connecticut shoreline towns appeared to be the hardest-hit.

PENNSYLVANIA: The northwestern corner of the state was without power. Power went out to much or all of Erie, Forest and Venango counties, according to emergency management officials.

VERMONT: A handful of northern Vermont towns were hit. A portion of the Northeast Kingdom near Sheldon lost power for about an hour, according to the Central Vermont Public Service, which covers about three-fourths of the state. Some customers in Franklin County including in Highgate and Swanton also lost power briefly.

CANADA: Blackouts were reported in Toronto, in Ottawa in the province's eastern region, Windsor in the west and North Bay in the northern part of Ontario. The blackout had not spread as far as Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario, suggesting power in the north was sporadic.

I heard that power went out in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Springfield, Massachusetts, which are in the western part of the state. Power is not out in central and eastern Massachusetts; however I understand (from MSNBC) that portions of Rhode Island are without power.

Also, this same grid is "attached" as far south and west as Oklahoma and as far south as Florida (not sure how far south).

Stephanie's out west visiting her Dad right now. So she's not home. That's a relief!

Right. Miss Mary - I remembered that Steph was away...
there's upstateny, and petal*pusher and pvroses are
in Michigan, as well.

Miss Mary wrote:Stephanie's out west visiting her Dad right now. So she's not home. That's a relief!

i thought she was leaving this weekend. glad to hear she is okay, thanks miss mary.

Stephanie was passing through Phoenix to Colorado when the outage hit. I believe Raine may be affected...I got a brief message from her earlier today...

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Here is a map of the area affected from CNN.com

I hope this doesn't happen again...because if it was related to the heat then it's gonna be a bit warmer tomorrow...

We've been out since 4:15pm. It's been hot here,85* w/ about 70% humidity.Sleeping tonite will be intresting.One thing this has done is remind me to replenish our emergancy supplies ! Consumers Energy can't give us an estimate on when electric will be turned back on.Strange things happen 'eh ? Geuss what ??? The power just came on ! Yeahhhhh ! Now we can have our fans going tonite ! Thank Goodness ! This was much better than the ice storm outtage ! ~K

Yaaaaaay! Good to see you there, pvroses! So proud your
power is on!

A quick call to my sister in Medford, NJ gleaned that mid-southern NJ wasn't affected at all; but a planned trip to NYC was perforce cancelled for "coppertop" (who's expected back Sunday).

Harry (king of weather) lives about 30 mi. south of Mansfield, OH. He's probably lost power, since my sister-in-law in Mansfield did.

Bill - Glad Coppertop wasn't in NYC at the time!!

PV - Good advice about the emergency supplies. This is a prime example that everyone needs them, not just the hurricane prone areas. Glad you're back up!!! Stay cool!

Yeah, the Philly area was spared again! I had landed in Phoenix and CNN was on in all of the restaurants and the gates. When I saw the "Breaking News" alert for NYC, I was like 'oh no, NOW WHAT?' :o . Thankfully, it was due to power lines and not terrorism. It's ashame that it took until Saturday for some cities to get full power restored.