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Keyser Soze Wrote:i think we're experiencing a posting outage.

nah its always this slow

i like it slow, im not good at holding too many conversations at once.

so, judging by my buddy list, jersey has power back, but nyc doesn't. but on the news they were saying brooklyn and queens has power now. anyone know what's going on???

and no, i don't like warm beer. but maybe that's because i've lived in the states for just as long as i lived there.

most of manhattan still does not have power. not sure about queens and brooklyn.

Lights are still off? I think I may know a little someone someone who might be a little scared and lonely in the dark, and probably coked up too. And she's waiting just for you Keyser.

have her IM me.

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ouch

so, the mayor of detroit has told everyone to stay home and have a long weekend since the city has a history of riots. but so far, the only looting has been in ottawa, go figure

the substation smoking on 14th street was most likely due to the overload that came down from canada/upstate ny, and didn't start it
but when i go into work eventually ( :-( ) i'll see what they're saying

no subways no fucking work today. 3 day weekend
yeah and i walked from 50th and 7th avenue all the way to the staten island ferry yesterday.I deserve i day off.

my boyfriend had to walk home from the east side to astoria across the 59th street bridge.

my power just came back a half hour ago. thank god cause it was so fucking hot in my apartment.

The power came back on in Staten Island around 2 a.m thankfully.

some places in staten island is getting their power turned off for a while
they're working on getting it back in manhattan there's a bunch of places here with no power
and the "fire" at 14th street substation wasn't a fire it was just some smoke from its automatic shutdown
pretty much everything bloomberg is saying is straight from con ed so its right

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its also the first time in con ed's history their steam plant has been completely shut down

I got power at 9:30 this morning and just got my internet back. Yesterday when the blackout hit, I was at Starbucks getting coffee for my boss. had the bitch not taken her time getting my coffee, i might've been stuck in an elevator, phewww. I took a taxi back home at around 9 after hanging out and watching people do an electricity dance in union square, and when i got off, some dude wanted the taxi driver to take him to long island...i guess a lot of people spent the night on the street. when i was walking back, i saw about 30 mexicans huddles in the back of a truck. funniest part of the night.

i went to the con edison in staten island where they had energy cause of their natural gas generators :banana:

did you go to work today? i didnt! :banana:

im at work now. :-(

<font size="3">World Sympathy And Wisecracks for U.S. Blackout
1 hour, 28 minutes ago

By Jeremy Laurence </font>

LONDON (Reuters) - Some people voiced admiration, others worried, and some could not help but poke fun at the world's self-confessed "superpower with a Third World grid."

"Now we understand why they (Americans) have been unable to get the electricity running in Baghdad," said 47-year-old engineer Ghassan Tombin in the Gulf Arab country of Dubai.


From Nairobi to Moscow and beyond, the world was aghast that New York and a swathe of other cities across the United States and Canada could be shut down by a blackout.


Many praised New Yorkers for their orderly response. "I'm sure everyone was fearful of another September 11, but they banded together and showed a great deal of camaraderie," said London taxi driver Steve Murray, 40.


As power gradually began returning after the biggest outage in North American history, people in other countries weighed whether such a large-scale breakdown could happen also to them.


While more than 50 million people battled to cope in America, tens of thousands of airline passengers were left stranded abroad, international business operations came to a standstill and phones jammed.


Former U.S. energy secretary Bill Richardson described the United States as a "superpower with a Third World grid."


Flights to Canada and the northeastern United States were cancelled around the world, frustrating some in departure lounges and frightening others already airborne.


Anatoly Chubais, chief executive of Russia's national power monopoly Unified Energy System (UES), called the blackout "the biggest accident in the history of world energy systems."


The world's newspapers splashed images of thousands of New Yorkers streaming across the Brooklyn Bridge onto front pages.


In Iraq (news - web sites), where the U.S. administration has been struggling to restore power since ousting Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in early April, residents in the capital worried how high-tech Americans would ever restore electricity with such huge power problems at home.


"They have the best equipment and technology and a power shortage can make such a big fuss in the United States. Now I am sure it will take them years to fix the electricity in Iraq," said Ali Saghbal, a worker at a Baghdad power station.


DISPARAGING


In Nairobi, some residents were far from sympathetic, saying Americans were receiving a taste of what it was like to live in the world's poorer countries.


"America, welcome to Kenya, see what we go through," said Alex Mwaura, a logistics officer with an aid agency in Nairobi.


"I'm happy -- let them experience how bushmen live without power, even for just one minute," added Emma Nzau, a 28-year-old receptionist. "Americans are so used to electricity, they should be like the Chinese and ride bicycles to work."


For many the question was: could it happen to them?





Officials in some countries dismissed the possibility of a similar power outage, saying their networks could not compare in size and complexity to the U.S. grid.

Julian Jessup, senior international economist at Standard Chartered bank in London, said: "It is a reminder of how vulnerable the U.S. economy is to problems in the energy sector, and there are a lot of problems there."

Some said their systems were more advanced and they were better equipped to cope with such breakdowns.

"I would find it very difficult to believe that an outage of this scale where all of Tokyo suffers a power outage...would happen in Japan," said Koji Morita, general manager of the energy think-tank Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ).

Even in Russia, where small-scale blackouts are common, the system is better protected against such widescale disruptions, said UES's Chubais.

"But any power system anywhere in the world to some extent is vulnerable to multiple events," sympathised Paul Panther-Price, Australia's electricity market management company spokesman.

German services union Verdi said Germany was at risk of power outages also as fierce competition was forcing companies to take drastic cost-saving measures.

(With contributions from Moscow, Nairobi, Baghdad, Dubai, Sydney, Tokyo, Berlin)