Blackout Front Line Report!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Interesting...

CNN is now reporting that they believe the problem started with a LIGHTNING STRIKE at the Niagra Falls power plant, and after that one went offline it set off the chain reaction.

[:) Smiley]

I'm in central NJ and the juice has been on the whole time in most of central NJ. Did get a power surge at 4:15 when all the power in the grid got dumped into our district.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Smiley
Did get a power surge at 4:15 when all the power in the grid got dumped into our district.

Dumped.

[Boris Godunov]

Well, the power's back in my neighborhood, finally. Came on about 1/2 hour ago. That made over 27 hours without it.

It actually came back up briefly at 1 PM, but there was a fire at the 14th street power station and it got shut off almost right away.

I spent last night with my roommate Caroline at a friend's place nearby. We managed to watch half of a DVD on the laptop before the battery cut out. How dumb was that? We had figured the power would be back any minute...

When we realized it was going to be a while, Caroline and I trekked back to our insanely dark apartment. A rather large moth had found his way into it, and in the candle light, it fluttering around freaked the hell out of Caroline. Killing it in the near-dark wasn't easy, but hey...a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!

After that we decided to go to Union Square and hang out for a bit with the hippies. Kinda fun, actually. Very communal.

Today, we went up to the UWS, which had power back by 4 AM, and hung out at a bar where Dan, my other roommate and Caroline's bf, works. He hooked us up with free food and beer. Ain't that sweet?

So, now to clean out the refrigerator...

This is the last thing NYC needed, considering our already disasterous budget woes. The cost of this fiasco is not something we need to bear.

[GePap]

For once the Bronx and northern manhattan got something before folks further south!
Take that you midtown losers! (or downtown, wherever)

(maybe cosmic payback for the bakcout of 99? Nah..)

[Boris Godunov]

UWS came on at 4 AM. That's where all the money is.

[SlowwHand]

Boris on a moth hunt.

[Sava]

moths are ****ing ferocious!

[GePap]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
UWS came on at 4 AM. That's where all the money is.

Yeah, but the Bronx got power back (well, parts of the south Bronx) by 10pm yesterday. I could see the lights in the distance. Interestingly enough, the moon yesterday was red, and you could see a fair number of stars.

[Sava]

the moon yesterday was red,

was that Mars maybe? I heard it was going to be big because it's passing its closest in 55,000 years.

[Spiffor]

Are you people afraid of butterflies ?

[Pekka]

I'm afraid of spiders and snakes... but moths???

[GePap]

Unless Mars is so close it is within 250,000 miles of the earth, no, it was the moon.

[Pekka]

What a perfect manly moment to show off and be rescuer for a lady, and then a gay guy gets to do it. What a waste

[Dom Pedro II]

I found a huge moth last night... but I didn't kill it. I put a glass over it and then let it outside.

I didn't do it for humanitarian reasons, I did it because do you have any idea how gross that would be to squash that little bat with antennas??