(((((BREAKING NEWS))))) -Power Outages in NY, Detroit, Toronto, and

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Ottawa

[mjb4]

1. more home grown terror

direct from bushco

[Brian Sweat]

9. I doubt it

probably just a problem with the grid.

[ryharrin]

33. Are Canada, NY, PA, OH, and MI all on the same grid?

That seems like a pretty damn huge problem.

[goobergunch]

41. I doubt it...

as my lights are still on.

[Brian Sweat]

43. Yes

Do you remember the great New York City black out in the late seventies. It was caused in part because of a problem with the grid that cut New York off from plants in Canada that supplied some of its power.

[ryharrin]

44. No, I wasn't born yet :)

But this still seems pretty damn fishy.

[moosedog]

27. I knew this was coming...

When they started putting on the propaganda about the surface to air missles, I said to myself....this is leading up to another lesson. We must be scared so they can do their evil. The no good .....

[QuietStorm]

2. where are the links?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I'm Watching MSNBC

[QuietStorm]

24. what are they saying

what is it attributed to????

[GOPisEvil]

6. Breaking - no links yet.

[Wonk]

14. LBN thread link here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=66475&mesg_id=66475

[Cush]

3. now Cleveland

eom

[jburton]

4. CNN: Cleveland now too

[goobergunch]

7. AP hasn't updated in an hour

and my power's still on in Philly.

[Paragon]

8. Thunderstorms? Windows worm?

Hmmm...

[sistersofmercy]

10. Do you think someone is po about Hamboli?

[drdigi420]

11. OK, where is KEN LAY!?

This sounds like his kind of scenario.

[corarose]

12. Jr's Poll numbers are down and he needs a boost

GD'it I bet Chicago is next. I have a class tonight if it's going to happen I hope it happens soon.

Oh, shit I live on the 33'rd floor and I can't walk down that many stairs.

[maveric]

13. Now in Cleveland and Buffalo

And a Con-Ed transformer is on fire too.

I remember the blackout of 64 but it didnt reach Cleveland or Toronto.

Is bu$hco up to this??
:tinfoilhat:

[SoCalDem]

15. also in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=66475&mesg_id=66475

[Cush]

16. CNN: FIre?

reporter just said that there was a fire somewhere that might have somethign to do with it

[jburton]

30. a tranformer fire

is what CNN is reporting, but how the hell does that affect such a huge area?

[Brian Sweat]

51. Do a little research on the Great NY Blackout of 1977

It is a great study on how one small problem can lead to more problems until the whole City goes dark. The same type of thing can happen to an entire section of the grid, but supposedly they put in some changes after 1977 to prevent this.

I am trying to find some information. I will post links if I find anything good.

[Cush]

17. POrtions of Toledo

on CNN

[barbaraann]

18. The GOP will blame "Grayout" Davis.

And Arnold will be called in to fix it. :-)

[_NorCal_D_]

26. LOL

Probably.

B-)

[sistersofmercy]

19. I hope looting doesn't start!

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

40. Half the country has a carry/conceal law

That should stop the looting, right? :eyes:

[RobertSeattle]

20. There's also a DIM BULB in Crawford, Texas

:)

[HFishbine]

31. Har!

Dat funny!

[JaneQPublic]

32. LOL!!!

I about did a spit-take reading that one!

[demsrule4life]

35. :) you just made my afternoon

[Brian Sweat]

56. Brightened up my day too.

:)

[silverweb]

21. Well, at least

...we know that San Diego and Orange Counties in California won't have any power outages today. GW is here, after all, and there must be no interference with his fundraising efforts or photo ops.

:eyes:

[QuietStorm]

22. Power Outage at Olympic Stadium

MONTREAL -- During the top of the second inning in the game between the Montreal Expos and Colorado Rockies, all power at Olympic Stadium went out and caused a delay that lasted an hour and 16 minutes. Play resumed at 8:47 p.m. ET

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20030813&content_id=481484&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

The link for West NY times out here is the googles search page.

http://news.google.com/news?q=outage+New+York&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn

[QuietStorm]

62. MY SISTER IS IN NJ -- SHE IS BEING EVACUATED FROM MALL

I am trying to gather if all of jersey is out. SHE SAYS THERE IS NO WATER.

[Catherine Vincent]

23. uh oh

people are panicking....

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

25. just happened here! Just like in California! The Deregulation Scam

I posted right before the switch over to DU2 that NY is about to get California-ed with power deregulation - I was in CA during that time period, and it's all happening again! Brownouts, blackouts, until we deregulate and privatize and the corporations jack up our electricity 1000%

ARG!!! $#@$#@#$!~

[havocmom]

50. Yeah, it played in California, now they are going global.

///Gee, guess we better scrap all those clean air standards and OSHA rules and get to putting up new power plants on every corner./// sarcasm off

[Gman]

28. Bush's ratings are getting very low... you knew this was coming

it was absolutely predictable and in fact, I predicted it in a previous post.



And, there's one been another data point that's not included when I posted this in late June, very early July.

It's time to get these two lines back together again. For reference purposes, the blue lines is people that would vote to reelect Bush, the pink line is people who either will not vote for Bush or will consider someone else.

[corarose]

42. I posted the same thing as you did. Here we go again with Jr's BS!

He needs to be taken out of office immediatly.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. Reports Of Pandemonium

in downtown NY....


I swear guys.... people are scared..... if our candidate is not seen as strong we are screwed.

Blackouts happened in the past but folks didn't think it was terrorism related.


I don't think we can overestimate how much the world has changed post 9-11.

[QuietStorm]

34. IS THIS TERROR RELATED I HAVE FAMILY THERE????

WHAT ARE THEY SAYING????

[DemocratSinceBirth]

36. That's The point

They don't know what caused it....

But people are thinking terrorism.

[QuietStorm]

54. Well I can understand why

I have abc on it does seem they really do not know what caused that. Can you imagine if this is terrorism and they start turning electricity off nationwide.

[QuietStorm]

55. Ted just said they are ruling out terrorism until they know what cause is.

[Catherine Vincent]

37. I sure hope he doesn't reach down south to Houston.

As hot as it is here? Shoot!

[VolcanoJen]

38. Don't panic... hopefully it's a power grid problem.

I'm sure we'll find out more soon. Let's not :tinfoilhat: and jump to conclusions here.

Steady...

[QuietStorm]

57. I have the news on now I was only getting panicky because

I was just on line here and I couldn't see for myself... THEY ARE RULING OUT TERROR TILL they know what the cause is. Okay I am hanging steady.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

Those looking for the Chimp right now should try looking under the bed

He's not there!

In the closet?

He's not there!

In the fallout shelter?

He's not there!

On Air Force One, getting out of harm's way?

There's Spot, I mean, the p(R)esident!

[markus]

61. Yes, We must have a Strong Leader

Buncha hoowie.

We need a competent leader. Mussolini was a strong leader. But he got his ass kicked in WWII (trying to avoid references to that "other guy" from WWII).

[jburton]

39. Subways down

Confirmed by MTA -- CNN

During rush hour. Jeez, it's gonna be hot in there.

[jab105]

45. ANOTHER SPECIAL REPORT ON ABC...

[Cush]

46. CNN: Possible Overload

Getting reports that a plant in Niagra overloaded, most likely an accident

[underpants]

Could it be the WORM??????????????????????????

Just a guess, my wife mentioned it to me.

[FubarFly]

47. The Niagra Mohawk power grid has been overloaded

--Cnn Headline News

[piece sine]

49. The Niagara Mohawk powergrid is overloaded

just reported this second

[Arbustosux]

48. Can't we use this??

Bush can't turn the power on in Iraq, can't keep it on in the US; shortages of natural gas and shortages at the pumps too!

[QuietStorm]

52. HAS EFFECTED FIVE STATES -- KOPPEL ON ABC NEWS

Mr. Gross.... Speaking on behalf of con ed says might be a domino effect. but not sure this is caused by the coned fire because there is no outage in canada which would be connected to this grid, yet they are not out.

[QuietStorm]

53. Seems like they really do not YET know the cause of these outages.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

58. Who needs terrorists when we have a vacationing clueless bush?

Talk about a misapplied recall~.

[markus]

59. Our Friendly Neighbors to the North saying "F--- You" Back

A lot of the N.E. is on a large grid with a lot of power from Quebec, along with Quebec, Ontario, etc.

Fortunatly, I'm safe here in North Dakota living large on that nice, cheap power from the WA state dams.

[Catherine Vincent]

60. Does Texas share a grid with any state?

I will have to do some research on the power grids. I learned a little during the Y2K thing but forgot most of what I read about.

[Brian Sweat]

63. Dammit, somehow I just know that

Clinton's penis is somehow responsible for this.

[TeeYiYi]

64. My bets are on the computer worm! Seriously. ........n/t

TYY

[VermontDem2004]

65. Freepers are freaking out

Al-quaida said they would attack our backbone. Is this what they mean?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/964250/posts?q=1&&page=1

[DarbyUSMC]

66. Cable and electric off. My building has a generator. Rochester NY N/T

[mandyky]

67. Is just NYC out, how about upstate?

Niagra Mohawk serves Central NY, Con Ed covers the city and Long Island.