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Ten years ago this very minute

The lights stayed on in the south. I didn't know about it until I watched the news that evening.
 
bad night.

my summer job back then was working on the ferry (NY Waterway). we were overloaded with customers trying to get off the island since the tunnels and subways were closed. no cash registers, so people were just shoving cash into our hands and we were shoving it into trash bags. the lines were blocks+ long.

sailing down the Hudson River with utter blackness on both the Manhattan and Jersey shores is still the creepiest thing I've ever seen that night.

we eventually had to close up the boats once it got too dark to safely operate, and because traffic trying to get out of the area was so bad, I ended up sleeping on a conference room floor in the office after the boats dropped all us employees off at the dock outside the office.
 
What a fun trivia fact!! We were in a gay resort in the Poconos and our power stayed on the entire time, ninety minutes away at home was total darkness.
 
i remember that shit. it was a friday too which was good because the weekend was just starting and then the lights just went out. it was hot as hell too. we were just in total darkness wondering when the lights were going to come back on. that rolling blackout fucked the whole east coast up. weird enough, i actually went past the niagara dam in ontario a few weeks later where the whole screw up started in the first place while visiting niagara falls. that place is creepy. wouldn't want to work there.
 
refujiunderground said:
i actually went past the niagara dam in ontario a few weeks later where the whole screw up started in the first place
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No, it didn't. That rumour began with a statement made by NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Patacki. It actually began in Ohio:

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state governor George Pataki almost immediately made public statements that they believed the blackout had started in Canada.

Those accusations quickly flowed into Warren in the control room, who already had his hands full.

“So I had our greatest challenge ever, as far as running the system,” he recalled. “At the same time I’m trying to convince other people that we didn’t cause it.”

The painstakingly detailed report by the U.S.-Canadian task force confirmed what Warren already knew: It wasn’t Ontario’s fault

The blackout’s roots trace back to a string of events in Ohio – some natural, some human.

Trees and hot weather performed the natural factors.

Heat boosted demand for power. That strained generating capacity, and loaded transmission lines – which heated and started dipping lower toward trees that had been allowed to grow up beneath.

Then a unit at the Eastlake coal-fired generating station near Cleveland had a breakdown at 1:31 p.m. – meaning some transmission lines had to work harder to deliver power from outside the area.

At 2:02 p.m., contact between a transmission line and a tree in the Dayton area knocked out the line. It also knocked out the ability of the agency called MISO, which controls the power grid in the area, to properly assess the system for the next three and a half hours.

System operators couldn’t see that with a generator down and a major transmission line out, other lines were overloading, and creating problems for First Edison, the local power company.

First Edison (FE) itself was blind. Its alarm and control systems had failed, but “for over an hour, no one in FE’s control room grasped that their computer systems were not operating properly,” the task force concluded.

From there, the outage went from bad to worse.
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The entire chain of events can be read here. There's far-too-much to post: http://www.thestar.com/business/economy/2013/08/13/blackout_2003_how_ontario_went_dark.html
 
I thought the terrorists would think this is a way to cripple a city but maybe they have problems getting into the building where they could make it happen.

I remember it.
 
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