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| Major power outage hits New York, other large cities |
| 2003-08-14 |
| NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck dozens of 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. State officials said the Niagara-Mohawk power grid was overloaded. The grid provides power for New York and stretches into Canada. The officials said the outage is a natural occurrence and not related to terrorism. 1965 east coast power outage?, now what was that all about again Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street were shut down. All area airports and the Long Island Railroad were also affected. The airports were operating on back-up power and operations were reported to be normal, officials said. Normal means the looting of the luggage and the endless flight delays has continued unabated The New York City Police Department said they were trying to determine what happened. Like every night... Thousands of people could be seen leaving buildings and walking into the streets.Only this time, not everyone is going "out for a smoke" New York subways were reported stopped and people were trapped in the cars. Like an every day commute... Two comments: 1) If there are 3000 dead in france and the power is out in North America, when will western imperialism be leaving the northern hemisphere. Dont we understand how futile it all is? 2) How can you tell if the power is out in detroit and cleveland, is it all that different? |
| Posted by:Frank Martin |
| #4 Yeah, but where did it come from? Was it good, wholesome Canadian lightning or evil, imperialistic American lightning. Let me be the first. It's Bush's fault. Or Karl Rove's. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-8-14 10:20:35 PM |
| #3 Fox News - quoting Jean Cretin (Ed - spelling error on purpose) sez the fault was a lightning strike in Niagra - on US side |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-14 7:29:16 PM |
| #2 I understand that major waterways hardly ever catch fire now as well. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-8-14 5:57:35 PM |
| #1 actually, since Dennis Kucinich left the Cleveland mayorship, they've had power, water and a transportation system working..even the Indians are doing better |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-14 5:37:21 PM |