[lbo-talk] Power blackout in US

[jakub at att.net]

I hear from friends in Westchester and Connecticut that things are getting 
back to normal up there, but the news is saying that most of NYC may be down 
for much of the day.  Seems to me that things are far worse in Cleveland, 
which is reportedly without water.  The furthest west it extended was 
apparently the Michigan UP, parts of which went off last night.  A friend in 
the Hudson Valley wrote this morning that while everything else was dark, 
West Point was fully illuminated as usual, so no escape from light pollution 
even in a blackout, courtesy of the military academy.

Jacob Conrad
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:43:56AM -0400, Chris Doss wrote:
> > What the fuck is going on over there?
> > 
> > I can't believe I get my US news through LBO-Talk.
> 
> Real New Yorkers probably have no power from their PCs to reply.  :)
> But it seems that the interchange between ConEd (NYC Power Company)
> and Niagara and the Canadian power company allowed a blackout to
> cascade.  Something didn't work correctly in the system that allows
> the power companies for these areas to share load.  I'm located near
> Philadelphia and things are fine here.  Power is slowly being restored
> according to news reports I've heard.  I still get a fast busy calling
> the cell numbers of various NYC friends, though.
> 
> 
> Matt
> 
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