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Squirrelina
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Post subject: no electricity stateside?  Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:54 pm |
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what the .... is going on ?
hopefully some natural explanation...
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Silke
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Squirrelina
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:08 pm |
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Location: Höheischweiler, SüdWestPfalz
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yes it looks like the niagaras dried out... 
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Garry
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:08 pm |
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Location: Bad Hersfeld, Germany
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First reports seem to explain it with a power outage caused by an overload of a Niagara power grid ... wonder how much power they make up there if several large cities are affected ...
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Squirrelina
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:12 pm |
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Yes but there also is a power plant in NY on fire, is what they first said.
Can not be responsible for all outage though,... maybe as a backup it was overloaded when the big one shut down.
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Garry
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:15 pm |
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yup, at least that's what they suspect right now ... just a result of the main outage ... hopefully ...
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Garry Glendown * '99 Firehawk Convertible
"Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall and torque is how far you take the wall with you."
"Speed doesn't kill - suddenly becoming stationary on the other hand ..."
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Squirrelina
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:21 pm |
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Location: Höheischweiler, SüdWestPfalz
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while I was watching the CNN news on this, my electricity went out for about a minute...
strange feeling - for a moment I was getting close to panic
(was from the thunderstorm here in germany - but at THAT moment...)
and then my computer was killed from the outage, took me a while to get it back running.
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Silke
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Last edited by Squirrelina on Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:53 am, edited 1 time in total.
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RobH
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:39 pm |
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Squirrelina
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:59 am |
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no biggie... on CNN's map it looked like a pretty big area!
would be like half of germany, parts of france and whatever without electricity... difficult to imagine.
Guess we do not have such big power plants tied in to each other,
everything is a little smaller over here.
But they will learn. And improve. 
(of course now the terrorists know where they 'want' to hit next time  )
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Silke
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Jagsy
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:51 am |
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My profession is electricity restoration - just waiting for the call. PLEASE.
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RobH
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 3:17 pm |
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Squirrelina wrote: no biggie... on CNN's map it looked like a pretty big area! But they will learn. And improve. (of course now the terrorists know where they 'want' to hit next time ) this was supposed to have been fixed after the '77 black out. The plants werent supposed to domino like they did. I dont feel real bad for them, its summer and they are already coming back on line. OKC area was without power in some places for weeks last winter.
We just have the rabid excess of consumption of everything, and sometimes we get bit.
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Garry
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 6:31 pm |
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