it was out in my part of town from 4:10pm eastern to 1:30am

heh..its on now..hasnt gone out yet...but prolly will cos they say the city im in (kitchener/waterloo) will be getting rolling blackouts...which is when the power goes out in tiny sections of the city for an average of 2 hours at a time..and its said that it will continue to do that untill about sunday then things should be back up to normal hopefully...

anyways..for anybody who dosent know what happened..50 million people in the eastern sea board of north america (canada and usa) were without power due to power overload at one of the main stations...im not sure if they found the cause yet or n ot, but they are assuming its either a fire in one of the main stations, lightning strike (which is pretty much the same thing as the fire), the heat, or just an overload due to the amount of power being used....

if you were in the blackout..what were you doing when it happened?


when it happened here...i was on TA forums listening to music..then the lamp on my desk started go flicker...but didnt really worry...then the power went out totally. 60 seconds later when i was outside i heard sirens going off...so i assumed that somebody must have crash tehre car into a hydro pole or something...then my neighbour came outside and told me that all of ontario is without power too...so i thought wtf...then i put on my car radio to Global TV (but the FM radio version) and caught the breaking news...and found out that parts of the USA were out too...and they assumed it was an overload...then i just listened to the radio more...then some of my mates came over...everybody on my street was out walking around with flashlights, playing music from there car, watching the metior shower and looking at mars..basically having a good time...it was kinda fun. ;p

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in the uk press aperently canada is blaming it on usa and usa is blaming it on canada.....

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bleh...soon enough both counties will agree and just blame it on some middle eastern country

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acctually i heard it started in ohio
so were not quite blaming it on canada
unless canada recently annexed ohio

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lets just blame the taliban

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Originally posted by netw3rkd bleh...soon enough both counties will agree and just blame it on some middle eastern country

heh! another war!

I wonder if the powercompany whos station broke can be held legally liable for it? if so could this be the biggest legal case in history?

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HELP ME THIS IS VIVID!!!!! HELP NO POWER!!!! IVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR SQUIRREL MEAT ON THE STREETS!!! HELP WE NEED UR POWER!!! IM UNSHAVEN AND STINKY!!! I DONT THINK ILL LAST THRU THE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE POWER FOR ! HOUR AND MY TIME IS ALMOST UP!!!!! SQUIRRELS ARENT MEATY ENUFF!

My power went out, it wasnt too chabby, except like 3 cars almost smashed into my car at night time!
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hahaha CALIFORNIA RULES!!!

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yea.... Shame for you guys i live in New Zealand we got heaps of power

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Originally posted by Kamui hahaha CALIFORNIA RULES!!!

No it doesn't. You have keebler elf man, the smut peddler who cares, and the terminator running for the state's head office.

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Originally posted by netw3rkd it was out in my part of town from 4:10pm eastern to 1:30am heh..its on now..hasnt gone out yet...but prolly will cos they say the city im in (kitchener/waterloo) will be getting rolling blackouts...which is when the power goes out in tiny sections of the city for an average of 2 hours at a time..and its said that it will continue to do that untill about sunday then things should be back up to normal hopefully... anyways..for anybody who dosent know what happened..50 million people in the eastern sea board of north america (canada and usa) were without power due to power overload at one of the main stations...im not sure if they found the cause yet or n ot, but they are assuming its either a fire in one of the main stations, lightning strike (which is pretty much the same thing as the fire), the heat, or just an overload due to the amount of power being used.... if you were in the blackout..what were you doing when it happened? when it happened here...i was on TA forums listening to music..then the lamp on my desk started go flicker...but didnt really worry...then the power went out totally. 60 seconds later when i was outside i heard sirens going off...so i assumed that somebody must have crash tehre car into a hydro pole or something...then my neighbour came outside and told me that all of ontario is without power too...so i thought wtf...then i put on my car radio to Global TV (but the FM radio version) and caught the breaking news...and found out that parts of the USA were out too...and they assumed it was an overload...then i just listened to the radio more...then some of my mates came over...everybody on my street was out walking around with flashlights, playing music from there car, watching the metior shower and looking at mars..basically having a good time...it was kinda fun. ;p

I was jacking off online and my computer went off just before i nutted so i had to finish myself ooff no just kidding..
the power didnt effect me as im not part of that grid section

HA HA!!! BLAME CANADA!!!!! Niagara Mohawk!! =D