Archive through August 14, 2003
MoveCloseDeleteAdmin

TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: Big Brother USA 2003 General Discussions Part 1: O/T : POWER BLACKOUT... Easterners... ;(: Archive through August 14, 2003

Hokeypokey04

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Some of you guys have CBS still on? Lucky you. The news on the channel I hav CBS on is in Cleveland, one of the city's with no power. (I'm south of there and got lucky because there are a lot of people around us with no power.) So I totally missed Amazing Race tonight. Very bummed about that especially with it being so close to the end. And with the write-up I just read, sounds like it was a good one. :(

Smokey

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm in NE Ohio, which is considered the east in these parts :) and it's very odd here. All of Cleveland and many suburbs are without power. I live an hour south east, and half my city is without power. Luckily, I have it! My brother lives in a town about 15 minutes west of me, and they do not have power, but everywhere around them does. On local news here, they are saying that it's subscribers to a particular electricity company (First Energy) that are affected.

It's bad up in Cleveland because it's affecting their water supply.

I also heard about the lightening strike, but a weather forecaster in Cleveland just spoke with the head of the National Weather Service and he said it's impossible it was a lightening strike, because there was no bad weather. He said any flash that was seen must have come from the power plant itself.

Hokeypokey04

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just heard that it wasn't lightning. They brought up at radar from the 4:00 time and there was a little storm, but according to radar, it produced no lightning....No clue what caused it though. Probably won't know until tomorrow. They are still looking into it.

Hokeypokey04

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Smokey, we probably saw the same thing. I'm not too far from you either.

Smokey

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Where are you Hokey?

Dan

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The following text is copied from CNN website http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html:
"One possibility was a lightning strike in the Niagara region on the U.S. side of the border, according to the Canadian Department of National Defense.

Canadian Defense Minister John McCallum said a fire at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania started the outage.

A spokesman for the Canadian prime minister's office said the cause was a fire at a Con Edison power plant in New York."

The first possibility has since been rejected. The last one is the one I refered to earlier.

Halfunit

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Smokey and Hokey (lol, that rhymes)...

I'm in Dover (south of Canton) and never lost power. My mom is in Willoughby (Lake County) and has no power.

Her local radio is reporting that she has power, but she doesn't.

Smokey

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Halfunit! Nice to meetcha and sure, I know where Dover is. I am in North Canton.

Widowswalk

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm in Pa tonight visiting and so far no blackout- it's 9:30 pm

Halfunit

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Smokey - hi neighbor! I was just up in your neck of the woods yesterday (doc appt on Everhard)...

BOO to road construction, is all I have to say, lol.

Ever go to Mulligan's?

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, jeez, 140 miners are trapped underground in Ottawa. Prayers are with them.

Dan

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just did a refresh on the CNN page that I copied from in my previous message and the part about Con Edison power plant in New York has been removed. Wow.

Kmjm

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm from London, ON and our power went out just after 4pm but has now gone back on after 5 hours. We're pretty lucky here, most of the rest of the province is still out. Actually, I was looking forward to seeing meteor showers and Mars without background light! I didn't expect TVCH to be up- isn't the server based in Ottawa?

So glad this didn't happen last night!

Edited to add- I grew up in Ottawa and there aren't any mines there, perhaps it's some other Ontario city. Sudbury?

Halfunit

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh GAL, that's horrible. :(

Kmjm

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes- just checked with my husband who's watching the news, it's Sudbury and they are OK, lots of oxygen, it's just that the elevators aren't working.

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 06:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They're 4000 feet underground and some even lower than that. I didn't know it was possible to sink that deep and live.

Hokeypokey04

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry for not posting sooner. I'm in Canton and I just talked to my mom who was up in Akron. She said that Massillon was out and half of Canton was. I had no idea about that, but everything is still fine here and as far as I know it has been, but I have been out most of the day and didn't even hear of the blackouts until almost 8pm tonight.

Smokey

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Halfunit, yep, I love Mulligans! It's a great place. :) And you are right about the road construction around here--bad. I don't live far from Everhard--about 3 minutes maybe.

Smokey

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hokey--yeah, my brother lives in Perry Township, almost Massillon and he has no power. I know Summit County is down and lots of Stark, too. I'm in North Canton, so right next door to you.

Halfunit

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
(I'm just chuckling that the 3 of us live within 25 miles of each other. This would be a simple road trip, lol)

Joni

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just moved from Cleveland.. My best friend still lives there, he works on the 33rd floor of one building and lives on the 21st of another, he got plenty of exercise but is safe :)

Hokeypokey04

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Glad to hear he is safe Joni.
That is funny that we all live just so close to each other. Wonder how many other people on this board do too? Never know, there could be more.

Halfunit

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Grand River, OH - All miners in the Morton Salt Mine (which is a mile and a half under Lake Erie), have been evacuated safely.

Pannie

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Best wishes to you from the west coast. I hear that on NPR that the reason for the outage is still a mystery? Just try to enjoy that camp-out and be safe. It's a good reminder to have extra batteries, candles, food in the pantry, bottled water, radio, etc. . Take care!

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 07:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Statue of Liberty's lit!!!!! (As well as small parts of New Jersy)