NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck several large cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.

Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Ottawa, Ontario. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m.

Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street were shut down, including all area airports and the Long Island Railroad. The airports were operating on back-up power and operations were reported to be normal, officials said.

The New York City Police Department said they were trying to determine what happened. A Con Edison transformer on East 14th Street in Manhattan was afire, CNN learned.

Thousands of people could be seen leaving buildings and walking into the streets. New York subways were reported stopped and people were trapped in the cars.

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

Goverment says this is not a terriost attack

That's weirdo. It can be anything.

Maybe it's aliens .. whee! Why the hell they always go to US first

was also just watching news.. i dont get what the deals is for people to be walking across the highway though.. lol.. wonder if the stop lights still work..

NYC mayor and CNN just said Niagara Mohawk grid overloaded.

This plant powers the entire north eastern United states and canada

Yeah i checked that too. It reminds me of some movie, can't put the name on it. Just it was night, and more beautiful.. maybe one of the earlier Terminator series, or Encounters of the 3rd type ... dunno

was also just watching news.. i dont get what the deals is for people to be walking across the highway though.. lol.. wonder if the stop lights still work..

When 911 happen people ran down the highways. The problem is everyone assumed this was happening again and they did evacuate major buildings.

You do not want to get stuck if they shut down NY like they did on 911 so people are leaving. And no , No power is on.

About power shortage, we had one yesterday in Prague, because too much people were using climatizers (due to high temps) -> our router took a 'shoot' and it's settings memory was cleared. Result : 26 hours offline (time to go back to work and to get some technical ppl from telecom company to get what's the problem and fix it)

So : i hate power outages. (but i can like them depends if i'm using a PC at the moment or not)

About power shortage, we had one yesterday in Prague, because too much people were using climatizers (due to high temps) -> our router took a 'shoot' and it's settings memory was cleared. Result : 26 hours offline (time to go back to work and to get some technical ppl from telecom company to get what's the problem and fix it)

So : i hate power outages. (but i can like them depends if i'm using a PC at the moment or not)

buy power backups, had same problem..even my ethernet card acted weird..

they just announced that power is coming back up in NY...

Where can I download the patch to restore power? Doesn't seem to be one on Microsofts site...

I heard its another DDoS attack by kidd0 .... j/k

LIGHTNING

That's what brought the northeastern part of the USA and Canada to a stop! OMG...

kidd0 DDoS'ed the power generator, taking it offline, bringing north america to a standstill. He would love that wouldn't he

i blame the mafia and Gnomes