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AndyMan    7

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About a blackout?



Yes.

Also, CNN reporting the Canadian Prime Ministers office is reporting a lightening strike to a power plant on the New York side of the Niagara River caused a cascading series of switched circuit breakers.

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quade    4

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About a blackout?



I should hope so!

Think about what the primary issue is right now for the average citizen in Baghdad.

This is just me talking out of my butt right now, but it makes sense that if I were a foriegn organization against the occupation of Iraq, I would have jumped all over this power outage and at least claimed that I caused it via an internet attack. I'd claim that this is only the first demonstation of what my organization could do. Doesn't matter if it were a true statement or not. It would send huge shockwaves through the American economy.

I sure as hell hope GWB speaks about it!
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quade    4

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Officials are now backing away from the lightning strike theory and are saying they have no real idea what caused the power outage, yet GWB states it was definately not a terrorist attack.

Seems a little premature, but you'd expect him to say that even if it was a cyber attack and they knew it. I'm not saying either way, but how can he?
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jtval    0

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its bill gates! he shut down the computers in the power grid. that inturn shut down all the power in the quadrant of the continent....

He'll be making his ransom statements soon!
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Rdutch    0

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its bill gates! he shut down the computers in the power grid. that inturn shut down all the power in the quadrant of the continent....

He'll be making his ransom statements soon!
Apparently he wants the NY yankees in the worls series this year:S




Hmmm massive Worm hits the same time a major power outage, I wonder if the power company uses Windows?


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Muenkel    0

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If BillVon can gloat about his 1.2 million jigawatts, then I can gloat too.

Power outage not affecting me, gotta love the generator. My ac is running, along with the TV, all the lights in the house and of course my computer.:ph34r:

This just in, Gray Davis has accepted responsibility for the blackout.:P

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turtlespeed    226

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There are back plants everywhere.. I don't know why power hasn't been re-routed as of yet.. This blackness is going to cause a baby boom!!! lol

Rhino



Yep, and I'm on my way to help!!!!

Ivan...is that Wayne NJ..Or Newark?
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turtlespeed    226

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Don't worry, don't wanna go back....I escaped from New Jersey...
I spent about a year up there during the 2000 new year thing...
I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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kallend    2,106

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Another reason I don't think it is terrorism is that they could get way more bang for the buck in the wintertime.

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Power demand is way higher in the summer.

Expect a baby boom next May.
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flypunk    0

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Don't believe the media, It's the gremlins I tell ya... for those who claim aliens, I have this to say - Its a conspiracy, the gremlins do the power outages and the aliens will be the responsible ones for the baby boom.

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NeedToJump    0

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Come on, everyone knows that it was aliens who knocked out the power for the terrorists but Bruce Willis and Will Smith managed to save us all without anyone knowing, jeez :P

On a side note, thanks to all the workers involved in getting the power back up, I've got power after only about 7 hours without it! You guys rock!
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wmw999    2,534

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its bill gates! he shut down the computers in the power grid.



Nah, he's testing the prototype of Skynet. Given the actual level of testing of some MS products, I'd expect a beta version of Skynet to be released next week :S

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ltdiver    3

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Now this is freaky. At 1:10pm PST (I live in CA) the hospital where I work had a brief flicker in it's electricity power! It activated the magnetic doors and our equipment APC's started to click on.

Then about 30 seconds later, the exact same thing happened again!

Our Plan Ops department checked it all out and said it was nothing internal that did it. It had to have come from outside.

Then, just tonight I discovered that this power flicker happened at the exact same time as the East Coast outage!

Any connection here, you electrical junkies??

ltdiver

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smiles    0

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:$ I'm not an electical junkie!

I live in B.C. Canada, where B.C. Hydro is part of a large power GRID that includes the Trans Alberta Power, this GRID stretches through the western United States and part of northern Mexico. Although these utilities are linked to BC Hydro, they are also linked to others GRIDs within the North American boundaries, it actually makes one big North American GRID. The danger is that even if BC Hydro could actually totally prepare, a failure within this GRID could cause such a drain that the effects could be felt here in BC
A failure in California power knocks out the power in all of the northern part of the state. The grid is switched in such a way that a complete drain happens to Oregon and brings that part to its knees, and before BC Hydro can make any adjustments the entire West Coast is in complete darkness...............

re: before BC Hydro can make any adjustments?:S
Apparently some electrical junkies have the ability to make adjustments on time...........:P

ahhh, it really has to do with the software?

SMiles;)

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