Breaking News---Major Power Outages

[GalvestonDuck]

"Federal sources say that the power outage is affecting a number of states and began as a mechanical failure at the 14th St. substation and dominoed out to other areas." - from the WNBC webcast.

I think I'll go out and rent "Summer Of Sam" tonight. After all, it was in New York, during the summer, and during a blackout.

[ameriwx2003]

Yes. whew, what a mess.I am flipping between stations myself,Msnbc Cnn and the Bastardi of news channels Foxnews;):)

[Colin]

Nothing here as of yet...Power is on...thankfully...heard it was a Power Grid Overload.

[Lindaloo]

i was afraid that terrorists did this to gain access to our planes again. thank goodness that they shut down the airports, because without power they are unable to screen for weapons.

[Rainband]

If there is no power when it gets dark..Our boarders with Canada are "OPEN" for anyone or anything to gain access to the US..I think the government is down_playing this to prevent panic!!!

[Miss Mary]

"I'm stuck in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacker!" - Chandler Bing.





Sorry, don't mean to make light of the situation. I too thought it was terrorism at first. Relieved to hear it's not. My daughter is a Friends fanatic (so am I, to an extent) so we keep playing that Friends ep over and over again......

What a mess up there. Sure hope the power comes back on quick.

[breeze]

Good to see you, Miss Mary! You were one of
the members that I was thinking about, driving
home from work, trying to recall our
weatherbuddies who might be affected by
the blackout. Good to see you online!

[Rainband]

Sorry just think it's funny how Canada says there was a fire in Niagra and the US says there wasn't??????????

[Miss Mary]

Thanks Annette for the concern. Someone on another thread worried about Stephanie. But remember she's on her way to visit her dad, out west somewhere. So we can relax about her. Cleveland's 4 hours north of me, so we're good to go here. I'm sure we're on a different grid this far south. Has anyone noticed only Erie is affected? The rest of PA is okay, correct? That's a relief, but those poor folks in Erie. Nina said - oooh, it's Eeerie in Erie. I said Nina, let's not joke around, and then we could not get that Friends scene out of our minds......if you're a fan of that show, you'll know what I'm talking about. If not, forgive me.

Didn't know about the fire. Will check on that.

[Rainband]

Now I heard on MSNBC canada said they believed it was a lightning strike and LOL accuweather of all souces said there was no lightning.. in the area today.....

[azsnowman]

WOW! That must really suck..........hope like Hades it's not an act of terrorism.

We had a construction company last year hit a main fiber optic trunk, talk about shutting your world down, NUTHIN' worked, I mean NUTHIN'.....can you imagine if this were to happen AGAIN and the terrorist hit the MAIN fiberoptic trunk to the east coast, no atms, no 'puters', no nuthin'!

Dennis

[Guest]

Well i just talked with my brother inlaw and his power is out as well which means its within 10 miles or possibly less of my area here in North Central Ohio.................Alot closer then i thaught................As some may or may not know i am about 45 miles nne of Columbus, OH and about 75 or so miles ssw of Cleveland, OH...........

[breeze]

Good to see you on, too, king - looks like you're on the
very fringes of this!

Hmmm, Johnathan, I saw that report on MSNBC of a lightning
strike in Niagra, as well. Then, they say it could have been an
overload. The temps in NYC, today, were actually supposed to
reach just over 90°F, first time since July 5th. I can't see that
causing an outage due to overloading, though...???

[nystate]

Hmm...I went to P&C to get some food for dinner- they are letting people in one at a time, with a flashlight, and a security guard, to make sure you don't steal anything while the lights were out.

Also- None of the traffic lights worked, and the railroad crossings are all blocked off, so I had to drive between the arms (or whatever they are called) of the RR crossing. Hopefully power will be back on soon.

[breeze]

nystate, I was wondering about you, too! Are you running a
generator? Hopefully, this will be one weird day, and, tomorrow
will be back to some normalcy!

[GalvestonDuck]

I also heard on MSNBC that some stores had sold out of candles. Most preparedness lists advise not to use candles since firefighters can't get through in case of a fire. So I wondered about all those NY'ers with candles. And then...it happened...they showed a fire of unknown origin, rising up into the night sky. I hope it wasn't related to someone simply trying to have light with a candle.

I hope everything stays safe there during the night, especially those walking to get home.

Nystate, take care.

Now if we can just get Vicki Lawrence to do a remake of her song, "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia."

That's the day that the lights went out up no-orth
That's the day that power grids went pfffffffft

[stormraiser]

Lol, GD, that's hilarious

Things have been good here, in the sticks outside of Albany, but Albany just got power back on about 1 hour ago and some places in the area are still without lights. Sometimes it pays to live in the middle of nowhere.

[azskyman]

I think it is WAY premature to be discussing causes...as the finger pointing is beginning before the power even comes back up in much of the affected area.

First we need to solve the problem...then determine the cause and have a central spokesperson for the situation.

Might even be too early to rule out terrorism...but even if it were, I would expect the announcements to say otherwise as nightfall approaches.

Scary time regardless.

Stay tuned.

[Colin]

I wouldn't rule out Terrorism at this point and I will not listen to anything anyone says until they can prove it...

I hope all these people get power back on very soon...since it is nightfall in most places.

[breeze]

Good to see you back online, stormraiser!