XPerties Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted August 14, 2003 Author Share Posted August 14, 2003 Goverment says this is not a terriost attack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkkavenger Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 That's weirdo. It can be anything. Maybe it's aliens .. whee! Why the hell they always go to US first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted August 14, 2003 Author Share Posted August 14, 2003 NYC mayor and CNN just said Niagara Mohawk grid overloaded.This plant powers the entire north eastern United states and canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkkavenger Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted August 14, 2003 Author Share Posted August 14, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkkavenger Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[PseudoKiller] Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 they just announced that power is coming back up in NY... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayroller Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Where can I download the patch to restore power? Doesn't seem to be one on Microsofts site... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[PseudoKiller] Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 I heard its another DDoS attack by kidd0 .... j/k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted August 15, 2003 Author Share Posted August 15, 2003 LIGHTNINGThat's what brought the northeastern part of the USA and Canada to a stop! OMG... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 15, 2003 Share Posted August 15, 2003 kidd0 DDoS'ed the power generator, taking it offline, bringing north america to a standstill. He would love that wouldn't he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted August 15, 2003 Share Posted August 15, 2003 i blame the mafia and Gnomes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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