Power outage in the NE USA

[babolaypo65]

Neko: what area are you in?

[Vermontcat]

Like Sas said Vermont is doing fine, I was up near her little town earlier today and everything here is pretty normal.
I did get a call from my parents who have no power in their corner of CT.
Luckily my aunt who was in NYC on business got out of the city early today before the power outage happened.

[ChloeLove]

We *just* got power back! It went out at like 3-4 PM and it's now 10:30 PM. The first thing I did was hop on PT! I was kinda scared because it was such a big blackout, now I have something to tell my kids. It was cool at the same time, though because if you walked outside there were no lights whatsoever and you could see the stars very clearly, and if you look at the moon, the red dot right next to it was Mars!! It was awesome!! I am so glad we got the power back, though.

[wolfsoul]

Most of Ontario is out too. I'm glad I live in BC!

The news said that the power outage is due to the number of people using electricity. We have to learn to conserve out energy!

[Fox-Gal]

I finally got a hold of my brother in N.Y.C., I was so happy. He says of course, it's not a fun time there, but aleast everyone is taking it fairly well. I was wondering about that part. I went through the blackout in "77 and that was unbelievable with the looting and all. No one hung out on the streets then if they didn't have too. Maybe a sign that people are finally changing for the better.

This time everyone outside making the best of it. He says it almost like one big "hot" street party. He did say they got everyone out of the subways safe and sound so thats good news.

I had to laugh at him though, he had to walk 12 blocks from his office to home, plus the 20 story flight of stairs to get out of the building. This is a man who takes a cab for anything over 4 blocks. That's the most exercise he gotton in years, sense 911 atleast. He says he moving out of the city, he wants to be a country man now....we will see about that.

Anyway, he says from what he heard it could take anywhere from 12 to 48 hours to get the whole city back up and running. But like he told me it could all be just rummors, it's hard to know what really happening.

N.Y.C. in the summer is so hot. I worry about the eldery in all this, you know it has to be harder on them then anybody else.

[dragonchilde]

I know that you're smack in the middle of the mess up north...Is everything okay, Kimmy?

Everyone, think about her. I think she's right there where the power's out. Hope you and the furbabies are all right. I haven't seen her post today, so I'm fairly sure she's power-less. Keep her in your prayers!

[smokey the elder]

I got power back at about 7:00, which was very unusual for this area. I guess Westchester and Rockland got their grids back pretty early. I'm trying to find out if I have work; I work in CT and as far as NYC is concerned, CT doesn't exist.

This frosts me because this is the exact same thing that happened in 1965; there was a cascading power failure. Nearly 40 years ago they were supposed to work on isolating the grid parts that went down. Our hairy buddy Osama is probably rubbing his hands together in glee.

[Russian Blue]

I'm just north of Toronto, Ontario and the Premier of the province called a state of emergency. I think only 50% of people have power right now and the rest should be up sometime today.

The news is asking that only essential services report to work since the subways, traffic lights, Go trains are not running.

Without electrical power, everyone was shown how vulnerable we are in the 21st century. No ATM's were working, no gas was being pumped at gas stations, some radio stations went off the air, cell phones didn't work, and all businesses completely shut down. All fast food places were bombarded with people trying to find food to take home for dinner, many had to be turned away because they ran out and had no power to cook more food.


Of course Nakita didn't notice. She still had her toys, litterbox, and food. I think cat's would survive an emergency better than humans!

[pitc9]

I am 40 Miles East of Cleveland and I was without power from 4:20 till 11:20. It was rough keeping myself and the pups cool!! I went to the store and got a few bags of ice (and some beer) to pack my coolers with the food from my fridge.
Then I sat out on the patio with my pups and my beer and the pups ended up eating almost all the ice I had packed in my little cooler outside with my beer in it!! Hey, they sure were staying cool!!!

Parts of downtown Cleveland are still without power and now they don't have water either!!!

But all is well here in the NorthEastern corner of Ohio!!!

[ramanth]

Originally posted by dragonchilde
I know that you're smack in the middle of the mess up north...Is everything okay, Kimmy?

Everyone, think about her. I think she's right there where the power's out. Hope you and the furbabies are all right. I haven't seen her post today, so I'm fairly sure she's power-less. Keep her in your prayers!

HERE I AM!!!

Thanks for thinking of me Heather. Me and the furbabies are a-okay.


Cooley, (where I work) lost power at 4:15 p.m. At first we thought it was a local thing. At 4:45 they let us go home early, not realizing how wide spread it was. Passing the main desk downstairs they said it was rumored that New York and Canada had no power. None of us knew what to think.

I got in the car and all FM stations were out. I finally found an AM station broadcasting out of Detroit and they had news about how the power grid in New York Niagra had gone out and how wide spread the power out was. It took me an hour to get home... not bad considering how bigger cities were turned into parking lots.

But when I got home... to my surprise, my AC was running.

Williamston had a brown out but our power was back. (but I don't have a computer at home... so I couldn't check in. Sorry about that! ) I started making phone calls, and got thru to Andy and he is okay, although I can't get ahold of him this morning.

Lansing for the most part has power back and I'm work right now. I'm trying to check in with friends and family (namely my Grandma) to find out if her power is back.

What a nightmare!!

I hope everyone that is still without power gets theirs back ASAP. Detroit probably won't get thiers back till Sunday.

[kingrattus]

Well lving (Ottawa/Ontario/Canada) in the dark from 4pm to 3am was fun. We had to hook up a car battery to a power converter to run my air pump for the fish (they were laying on their sides hardy breathing).

The power wernt out as I was heading into work. Then I saw a friend I use to watch when her mom was at work (dad sepperation, dad was a coke head). She said al power is out in the city. I said cool, I get to stand around in the dark & do nothing all night, such fun.

then at 5:38pm the security guards came by saying the owner of the mall said if the power is still out at 6pm we can all go home.
Our manager was called at 5:45 to tell him the newa & before we told him anything, he said I want everyone to go home.

So I left caught the 166 (city bus) & got off at the Queensway Hospital. Next bus was due at 6:08pm, then 6:22pm, then 6:34pm then 6:50pm. It was 28C & with humidity it was 35C. I saw a good friend driving one of the 166's I haided him down & said I've been waiting for the 118 since 6pm. he asked if I had a cell & I said no, he said well I have Vern (Rob's dad) on my cell, hold on, the cell couldn't get through, dead & busy. So I said screwit, I'm walking Home (behind Hazeldean Mall somewhere).

So I started walking, I go to the Shoppers in Bells Corner & my bus driver friend saw me & honked at me o run to the next bus stop. He told me to get in he'll bring me to the bridge at the other end of Bell's Corner. he said he had been trying to get a hold of Vern the whole time to notift him I'm walking, then the phone rang & Rob picked it up!! I was saved!!

Rob took me home, asked about my adventure. When we got home I said SWEET! the mini tv is working!! So we watched TV for a couple of hours. Then 3 of Rob's mothers friends came over cause the only channel we go was the one with the Great Race (I don't know what it really was called, I never watch it). Her friends showed up & couldn't beleave we really had tv, they were thrilled. Passerbyers were giggling, because the TV was running off the car & we were sitting in the front yard watching TV on those cool foldup chairs.

Well Oscar & Mango are ok, THANK GOODNESS!! I still haven't gotten a hold of my mom yet, she had night blindness so I hope shes ok.

Sorry about the long story but it was very exciting.

[Maresche]

Here in Cleveland the power went down at 4:15 and the water stopped coming around 5. We didn't fill up any bottles of water or anything because, at the time, we didn't realize how serious it was. By the time we knew, the water stopped coming.

Power came back around 5:30 this morning for us, but there are still places around the city without it. We didn't have water when we left this morning but are being told it should come back very soon, most other areas of the city already have it. We just have to boil alert going until 24 hours after the water comes back per area.

Overall things we pretty quite here. 1 house fire due to candles, those folks are in critical condition at the hospital. Only a few more break-ins than normal for the city. One police officer died of a heart attack in his cruiser, so I'm not sure if it is related or not.

By the end of the day tomorrow, everything should be back to normal, or so the media says.

[babolaypo65]

Yuck guys! This does NOT sound like fun. Thanks for checking in, and sharing your stories with us.... Hope it's all resolved soon.

[kingrattus]

The power is still up in my neighbourhood, but work's power still hasn't come on, so they closed the whole mall for the day & I still get paid for an 8 hour shift!!!! so thes $62.00(before taxs) free!!!

Mango is still a bit upset, but Oscar is looking for food, only cause I didn't feed them lastnight, I figured it would be best if they saved their energy & oxygen by doing nothing at all.

[ramanth]

Got off the phone with Donna (moosmom). They have no power still but she and the kitties are fine.

Gonna try Leslie (AdoreMyDogs) soon.

*EDIT* Leslie is okay, pups and kitties are okay.... Fish are not so good.

No power to run their air pump and water restrictions.