Check in Thread

[Cheswick2.0]

I am in North Eastern Pa. I am near scranton. We have power.

Can everyone please check in so we can get an idea of who is with us and who is not?

T

[molly]

1. Delaware still OK

north of Toronto is not

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=177423

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Chicago is fine.

And I hope it stays that way.

[Catshrink]

3. Phoenix is fine.... and hot

[DEMActivist]

4. Atlanta GA fine n/t

.

[PaDUer]

5. Scranton here

so far we're ok...Local news reporting Susquehanna Co was down for a bit but back up and running..

[Mandate My Ass]

6. Philadelphia is still on

as are the immediate western suburbs.

[DagmarK]

7. Portland, OR is fine.

(sorry!)

[CMT]

8. Madison, Wisconsin is fine

eom.

[ObaMania]

9. Northern VA (DC Area)

is A-OK!

[salin]

10. Central and Southern Indiana are fine

Not sure about up north. Though I would assume powergrids up north are related to Chicago (and fine) rather than Toledo/Detroit.

[onecitizen]

11. WV is fine as far as I know.

At least Huntington is with power. I heard Columbus, OH is out though.

[Lady President]

18. Columbus, Ohio is Fine

Columbus is okay; the line seems to be just north of us. The local reports say that Toledo, Cleveland, and parts of Akron are all without power.

[VolcanoJen]

34. The 'Nati's Got The Juice!!

We're fine in southwestern Ohio/northern Kentucky. There were some concerns at first, as there were various power outages around the area, but they have not been attributed to the problems back east and up north.

Good luck Detroit,
Jennifer

[mandyky]

12. KY has juice!

Anyone from upstate NY? Is that on or off?

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. North Florida is fine but Queens NY is definitely out.

eom

[The Lone Liberal]

14. Oklahoma -- OK (no pun intended)

:hippie:

[displacedtexan]

15. DC and Baltimore are fine!

no problems here in Baltimore!
Spouse just called; DC is fine!

[FarLeftRage]

16. As I have posted earlier...

I am in Upstate NY, about 50 miles south of the U.S./Canada border and everything here is fine...

[leontrotsky]

17. upstate NY is ok

dunno about albany though

[Jacobin]

19. It's cooking in Louisiana, but no brown/blackouts yet

.

[Bossy Monkey]

20. CNN says NYC, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, Ottawa, Erie PA

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html

[BelgianMadCow]

21. lol@your signature

chickenhawk yellow :-) good one !

What are the other colors ?

[mike_c]

22. HA! No power shortage in Northern California...

...I'm happy to report. 'Course we'll be paying for the last one for the next twenty years or so....

[shanti]

36. you know what's funny?

i'm in sacramento and my electric bill has gone DOWN, and i'm in an all-electric home.

[Emboldened Chimp]

23. Santa Monica, CA a-okay!

[IranianDemocrat]

24. Juneau, Alaska- WE HAVE NO POWER!

joking hahhaa

[havocmom]

25. Montana is still on fire

but the lights work...
Or maybe I am able to use my computer because I have 80 prairie dogs on a treadmill turning the portable generator that runs my PC and supplies the shocks I need to keep the voices from penatrating my tinfoil bonnet.

edited cus I can't eat ice cream on a stick and type at the same time

[graham67]

26. South of Youngstown, OH

we're running on generators. :-(

[bluestateguy]

27. Austin is fine

Though we had some nasty Thunderstorms for the last few days, and a bad heat wave last week.

Interestingly, the night the Supreme Court appointed * President in 2000 there was a terrible freeze in Austin and power was out all night.

[Suspicious]

28. Lansing, Michigan is out, as well as

Detroit (so I hear). I work directly across the street from the State Capitol building (and it was pure torture getting out of our building, let me tell you - no emergency lighting in the stairways). Traffic was horrendous. My normal 15-20-minute drive home took an hour and 15 minutes.

I live in a suburb - Okemos, and the power was out here, I hear, but by the time I got home, it was - thankfully - back on.

[WillyT]

29. Sacramento, CA Is OK!!! --- Hot, But OK !!!

Hope all the rest of you are safe!

:loveya:

[trogdor]

30. Clinton, New York back online.

Ahhhh! That's much better.

[MaineDem]

31. Maine has power (n/t)

.

[DoYouEverWonder]

32. AP Wire back up, here's the list

of the areas that are out.


Areas Affected by the Northeast Blackout

[dweller]

33. Apex is out here in NC

(that's a town btw) but that was a fluke due to something unrelated to the power outage in NE.
but otherwise, NC is otay!

remember we had the ICE storm back in Dec 02 that just knocked the bejeezus out of our power here, 8 days or so.
I don't know if it's any better in the summer with the heat, nah, i suspect it's worse in the winter with the limbs/trees falling through the roof with the ice.

hope everyone survives the present mess in the North.

dp

[Nay]

35. Richmond, VA area is fine. N/T

.

[Valerie5555]

37. Am sure Calgary and the rest of Western CA (as in Canada) is okay

wonder if Toronto and the rest of Ontario have got back to normal yet.

On edit places like Banff may have problems due to forest fire related power outages.

[laruemtt]

38. Huntington WV accounted for

,

[WilliamPitt]

39. Boston's still here n/t

[left_of_left]

40. Missouri is fine...

and Reich Wing as ever!

[markses]

41. Brooklyn here - Power out

There's a 300 pound local kid wearing an orange vest and directing traffic on 5th Ave. He's drinking a beer discretely covered by a paper bag, and appears quite tanked.

Love NYC.

BTW - Stores here are closing down early. I'm out to the stoop to watch festivities.

[Monaco]

42. NW NJ

Power came back on about an hour ago.

[dmr]

43. Long Island

We live in one of two towns on Long Island that has it's own (and cheaper) power supply - though our village has had two rolling blackouts so far, lasting about 40 minutes each. We are very thankful to our village's founding fathers. We also feel bad for everyone else because it is so hot outside with no breeze in the air.

My neighbor is a dockworker and drives into the city every day, but he isn't home yet, and he's usually home before 4pm. He's like a son to me, so I won't feel right until I see that he is home safe and sound.

[maveric]

44. I'm in San Diego and we have bu$h's presence blacking out the sun.

[9215]

45. How will people in a blackout

check in?

Seattle's fine