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Adven

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Adven....you are priceless!! Thanks for saving us leftcoasters!!

Squaredsc

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 09:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ahh adven's back.

Ginger1218

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 09:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
awww that is horrible Jan. Poor guy :(

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 08:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Image from space:


Blackout

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
WOW!!!!

Egbok

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yup...I'd say that's a blackout. What an amazing picture! Thanks Half!

Hippyt

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow,what a cool photo! That's incredible.

Egbok

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 11:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Awesome pic Half!

Sasman

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 01:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks for posting that picture. my god, new jersey & the rest are really gone!

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 04:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Very cool pic, Halfunit.

Galelia

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 05:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh,well,no biggie.

Hippyt

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 12:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Hippy - No I haven't seen them, but now I'll be sure to scope them out this weekend!!