Black outs reported for all the Eastern States and Canada
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Adven | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:12 am     My apologies all. I just flew back from Cleveland (boy, are my arms tired) where I was visiting a couple of power plants - a hobby of mine. I also collect used dental floss. Anyway, I was bored, so I started throwing a few switches and, coincidentally I'm sure, most of the eastern seaboard went dark. Luckily, thanks to some quick thinking on my part, I was able to pin it on an old lady and was even able to make myself into something of a hero by saying I wrestled her to the ground before she got to the switches for the west coast. Anyway, her trial's coming up next week and, as a witness, it will be my solemn duty to put the last nail in her coffin and send her up the river to contemplate the error of her ways. So if we are going to start any threads it should be a Blame The Old Lady thread. |
Goddessatlaw | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:49 am     ROTFLMAO!!!! Glad to hear from you, Adven. Hope your blackout experience wasn't too torturous (even if it was all your fault). |
Egbok | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:51 am     Adven....you are priceless!! Thanks for saving us leftcoasters!! |
Squaredsc | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 09:06 am     ahh adven's back. |
Ginger1218 | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 09:33 am     Bastable, if you had somehow called me, I would have gotten to you and brought you food, pain pills, or something. The thought of you laying there in pain, upsets me. I have a car, I could have gottent to you somehow and made sure you were ok. Please email me and I will give you my number so, in case of anything God forbid, somebody can help. Neighbors (or sort of neighbors) should be able to help each other in case of need. Adven, so it's your fault that my birthday party almost got destroyed. There was a huge surprise party for Saturday night, and it almost was destroyed. Luckily it all worked out. |
Adven | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 10:39 am     Sorry, Ginger, I tried to stop that crazy old lady, but she was pretty sinewy - not unlike trying to put a cat in a small garbage can (not that I have any experience in that area). Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Her family are trying to suggest I framed her because she's a quadriplegic, bound to a wheelchair and been comatose for three years. Sounds like nitpicking to me. Some people will try anything to get a jury's sympathy. |
Jan | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 11:52 am     Bastable, the time sounds like it was rotten for you but thank God you are OK. A 24 yr old in Toronto died in his apartment, they think, because he overheated. He was hit by a massive electrical jolt while at work a couple of years ago and lost both legs and an arm. He had to have so many skin grafts that his skin could not breathe in the heat, they think, once his air conditioning was lost in the power outage. He was found dead after his family (located in Sault Ste Marie) spent hours trying to call to find someone that could go check on him. Guess he needed someone like Ginger that was willing to help him in time  |
Ginger1218 | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 12:02 pm     awww that is horrible Jan. Poor guy |
Djgirl5235 | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 08:45 am     I can say that most of us here didn't have that hard of a time. As I'm north of Toronto (about 25 minutes) we had our power back on by 4:30am on Friday. A couple of our friends who live in the downtown core didn't get their power back on until Saturday at 9:30am - they were more than ticked off by that time. No problems, and our neighbourhood was rather quiet all night. People just hung out with their families, and enjoyed a good bbq! |
Halfunit | Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:41 am     Image from space:
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Goddessatlaw | Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:43 am     WOW!!!! |
Egbok | Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:48 am     Yup...I'd say that's a blackout. What an amazing picture! Thanks Half! |
Hippyt | Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:50 am     Wow,what a cool photo! That's incredible. |
Egbok | Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:58 am     I just heard London and the southeastern part of England are having a major blackout right now.... |
Whoami | Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 12:59 pm     Awesome pic Half! |
Sasman | Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 01:07 pm     thanks for posting that picture. my god, new jersey & the rest are really gone! |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 04:34 pm     Very cool pic, Halfunit. |
Galelia | Friday, August 29, 2003 - 05:49 am     I hate to be a party pooper, but according to snopes, that picture is a hoax. http://www.snopes.com/photos/blackout.asp |
Halfunit | Friday, August 29, 2003 - 06:25 am     It was forwarded to me via e-mail, so it very well could be. Sorry for not validating first.  |
Egbok | Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:11 am     Half, even if it is a hoax, I'm thinking that's pretty much what it would look like anyway...so for me, it still is a great picture! |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:16 am     I just found out it was a hoax too and was coming here to post the Snopes site. Friend of mine sent it to a friend of his who lives in PA, and the friend replied that the h\photo shows PA blacked out when it was not. Crapola. |
Hippyt | Friday, August 29, 2003 - 10:14 am     Oh,well,no biggie. |
Hippyt | Friday, August 29, 2003 - 12:10 pm     Half,have you seen the new photos of Mars? Incredible stuff,I tried to go to the Hubble site,I think Hubble.org? And,the whole site locked up,guess it was loading too slow. Pretty cool photos. |
Halfunit | Friday, August 29, 2003 - 12:21 pm     Hippy - No I haven't seen them, but now I'll be sure to scope them out this weekend!!  |
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