Power outages

[Freejack2]

It's wierd here. I was working in Albany today when the power went out. Starting driving home and as I got west outside of Albany the power is fine. I'm a home now and other than the occasional brownout the power here is ok. We're on the Nimo grid as Albany is.
Wierd.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: freegeeks
ok CNN is ridiculous

We are going now to our correspondent in "Insert City"
Anchor: tell us how are you feeling, what are you seeing
Correspondent: well there is no electricity
Achor: Thx for the info
Correspondent: Back to the studio



LOL

I hate CNN.

and the world hates you, thus the pieces of the puzzle are now complete.

Don't correct spelling if you can't be bothered to capitalize correctly.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
n-i-a-g-a-r-a

Who fvcking cares you crazy canucklehead.

did i ask if you cared? stfu

Wow witty comeback. Did you learn that on your pizza delivery route? Big man you are!

that doesn't even make sense, but it's your prerogative to make yourself look like an ass so don't let me stand in your way.

It does make sense. I was calling you a loser and you are.

you don't even know my name, so my original proposition still stands: STFU.

I believe it is Greg or Gregg so fvck off.

what part of STFU don't you understand? PM me for instructions, you've hijacked this thread enough.

 

[BG4533]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: forcesho
my notebook is on 50% battery.. oh no !

This is why I have an A.C. Inverter in my car; that way if the power goes out (living in the boonies it can and does) and I need to get on the internet or something else all I need to do is turn on my car, stretch an extension cord through the car window and inside the house, plug the ol' inverter into the cig. lighter and I'm good to go!

Seriously, it's a poor man's generator. $20 at Wally-mart. If you're afraid your power might go out in winter and you'll freeze to death get a small radiator and one of those, or a large radiator and buy the deluxe $50 version with two outlets. (and a higher mA rating)

Good advice, but to really run a heater from it you will need a unit hard wired to the battery. I think the cigarette adaptor will only support 350W inverters and less.

 

[Mday]

i was almost in a train, by 15 mins. i was at staples, trying to buy some things =\

anyway, i have power, and i dont think places a block from me have power.

 

[ElFenix]

i'm watching CNN and they're showing a road and one half of it is packed and the other half has no cars on it... in other countries people would just be driving on that empty side as well, going the wrong way

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle

Originally posted by: freegeeks
ok CNN is ridiculous

We are going now to our correspondent in "Insert City"
Anchor: tell us how are you feeling, what are you seeing
Correspondent: well there is no electricity
Achor: Thx for the info
Correspondent: Back to the studio



LOL

yeah...well MSNBC isnt much better

anchor: Where were you when this started and how did you get to where you are
correspondent: I was in my office and i walked down the stairs like everyone else

oh my god -- LOL --
too bad I don't have MSNBC

I love watching the news channels when these things happens

and they just keep babbling away about terrorism
and they are also looking if that internet worm could have something to do with it -- LOL -- LOL

I surely hope that US power stations are not running on Windows Me

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: BG4533

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: forcesho
my notebook is on 50% battery.. oh no !

This is why I have an A.C. Inverter in my car; that way if the power goes out (living in the boonies it can and does) and I need to get on the internet or something else all I need to do is turn on my car, stretch an extension cord through the car window and inside the house, plug the ol' inverter into the cig. lighter and I'm good to go!

Seriously, it's a poor man's generator. $20 at Wally-mart. If you're afraid your power might go out in winter and you'll freeze to death get a small radiator and one of those, or a large radiator and buy the deluxe $50 version with two outlets. (and a higher mA rating)

Good advice, but to really run a heater from it you will need a unit hard wired to the battery. I think the cigarette adaptor will only support 350W inverters and less.

Older models, yeah. The wiring wasn't certified for that many W running through it. On the other hand my dad's '99 Dodge van can do something like 600W in theory. If the car isn't running though. I would suspect that if you were to turn off the lights, dim the dash panels and otherwise turn off any other electricity-draining stuff you could get a little more that 350W going through it.

Oh yeah, it's not too hard to hook up something to the battery. They sell cigarette lighter outlets at most auto parts stores, with instructions. (For like $15 though!)

 

[Aceshigh]

Originally posted by: digitalsm
Heh. Maybe if each state had its own power grid, and its own power generators this wouldnt happen. Instead you have the eastern power grid, the western power grid, and the Texas power grid, with a bunch of states in the east and west not providing enough power for their own states.

Texas has it's own power grid? That's cool!

 

[Graphicd00d]

It's the blasterworm

"In 60 seconds your powergrid will shutdown"

 

[Jzero]

I wonder if Wduaqnug had a hand in this?

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: Jzero
I wonder if Wduaqnug had a hand in this?

he was bored cause he couldnt post here anymore

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
n-i-a-g-a-r-a

Who fvcking cares you crazy canucklehead.

did i ask if you cared? stfu

Wow witty comeback. Did you learn that on your pizza delivery route? Big man you are!

that doesn't even make sense, but it's your prerogative to make yourself look like an ass so don't let me stand in your way.

It does make sense. I was calling you a loser and you are.

you don't even know my name, so my original proposition still stands: STFU.

I believe it is Greg or Gregg so fvck off.

what part of STFU don't you understand? PM me for instructions, you've hijacked this thread enough.

I hijacked it? We are both guilty, but you started it with the whole spelling thing.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Aceshigh

Originally posted by: digitalsm
Heh. Maybe if each state had its own power grid, and its own power generators this wouldnt happen. Instead you have the eastern power grid, the western power grid, and the Texas power grid, with a bunch of states in the east and west not providing enough power for their own states.

Texas has it's own power grid? That's cool!

NASA's there man, of course they do! Hell, I think NASA even has their own grid.

 

[FuzzyBee]

How the power grid works.

Interesting:

The power grid, essentially an interconnected grid of transmission lines, covers most of the United States as well as parts of Canada and Mexico. It?s divided into three major regions: the East, the West and Texas.

Why the hell does Texas get it's own grid? And why isn't all of Texas in the Texas grid? You'd think they'd tried to secede or something.

 

[Parrotheader]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i'm watching CNN and they're showing a road and one half of it is packed and the other half has no cars on it... in other countries people would just be driving on that empty side as well, going the wrong way

I think they do that along the Gulf Coast on occasion when a hurricane's coming and millions of people are having to leave the area at once (usually there's so much heads up time now though it's probably not necessary.) It makes sense if you know there's imminent danger. In this case I guess they're not opening them up that way because they're assuming there's no immediate threat.

 

[mjquilly]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
n-i-a-g-a-r-a

Who fvcking cares you crazy canucklehead.

did i ask if you cared? stfu

Wow witty comeback. Did you learn that on your pizza delivery route? Big man you are!

that doesn't even make sense, but it's your prerogative to make yourself look like an ass so don't let me stand in your way.

It does make sense. I was calling you a loser and you are.

you don't even know my name, so my original proposition still stands: STFU.

I believe it is Greg or Gregg so fvck off.

what part of STFU don't you understand? PM me for instructions, you've hijacked this thread enough.

It's called PM, boys. Learn how to use it.

 

[TheNinja]

What does this mean, " New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed the outage was not related to terrorism or an accident. " Well what was it then....done on purpose?!?

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

 

[Wag]

Long thread-

Just what areas are supplied power by the Niagra grid? Doesn't any part of New England get power from it? You'ld think it would considering we closed most of the nuclear power plants here.

 

[Tetsuo]

Crazy stuff, I hope noone trapped dies.

 

[PrincessGuard]

Originally posted by: Staley8
What does this mean, " New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed the outage was not related to terrorism or an accident. " Well what was it then....done on purpose?!?

Maybe he got jealous of California's rolling blackouts...

 

[MrDingleDangle]

supposedly a mechanical failure at the NYC 14th street power station started a domino effect


for some reason i see the eyes of terrorists lighting up with ideas

 

[moonshinemadness]

Its really weird im watching on CNBC europe (In britain) they dont know what the hell is going on except it going to be back up in hours not days!

Mayor Bloomeberg says Go Home open the windows and drink pleanty!

Detroit , Toront, Ottowa, New York identified as having no power. Quebec City Has Power

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: PrincessGuard

Originally posted by: Staley8
What does this mean, " New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed the outage was not related to terrorism or an accident. " Well what was it then....done on purpose?!?

Maybe he got jealous of California's rolling blackouts...

He's got reason to be jealous. California > east coast

 

[Jingoh]

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