Rebel Loyaltist Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 Man this black out is huge and has spread all over the place. I'm just hoping when all you guys who are in tha affectecd areas are all right.
edlib Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 Buh? I guess I must be all right then, since I know nothing about it. *Turns on news* EDIT: Oh, yeah. Now I see. It was on CNN as soon as I turned it on. Hmmm... guess we lucked out.
Admiral Odin Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 I got hit with it. But everything is alright. Lights came on after about 2 hours. I did get out of work early. Hard to cook when you can't see anything.
Nute Gunray Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 They'd better not leech my power. DEFEND THE FIRE
Rogue Nine Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 They evacuated the mall I work at. It was funky, there were all of these sirens and flashy lights and stuff all over the place. Had to kick everyone out of the theaters too. All in all, pretty neat and quaint, for a blackout.
GUNNER Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 I'm good over here. No problem at all, thank you for asking.
Cmdr. Cracken Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 I'm good just got back power yesterday night.
Wildstar Posted August 15, 2003 Posted August 15, 2003 Quote Originally posted by edlib EDIT: Oh, yeah. Now I see. It was on CNN as soon as I turned it on. Hmmm... guess we lucked out. We lucked out alright, but that's b/c Boston's power comes from the nuke plant in Plymouth (I think) (my dad, BTW, used to be a maintenance worker (welder) there). If we lived 100 miles or so to the west, it would've been big trouble.
Jabba The Hunt Posted August 16, 2003 Posted August 16, 2003 Yeah I also hope you are alright, I know when we had a blackout a few months back (during the winter I think) how bad it was... I mean I couldn't get on the computer, I started shaking and almost fitted And for the Americans here I emphaise this is a joke (well you wanted in your face humour)
Kylilin Posted August 17, 2003 Posted August 17, 2003 I was at my fiances house when it happened, we didn't get power back until nine o'clock that night.
Gold leader Posted August 17, 2003 Posted August 17, 2003 Please don't mind the impertinence of this question, but did you two made your contribution to the expected North-East Baby-Boom of May 2004?
Kylilin Posted August 18, 2003 Posted August 18, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Gold leader Please don't mind the impertinence of this question, but did you two made your contribution to the expected North-East Baby-Boom of May 2004? Nunya
Nute Gunray Posted August 18, 2003 Posted August 18, 2003 I wonder if the expected birthrate surge in July-August 2002 ever actually happened.
Gold leader Posted August 18, 2003 Posted August 18, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Kylilin Nunya As I expected. Yesterday I read in the paper that birthrate surges as a side effect of dramatic events are nothing but an urban myth. Too bad.
Kylilin Posted August 19, 2003 Posted August 19, 2003 http://sports.espn.go.com/page2/s/caple/030817.html
Flying Beastie Posted August 20, 2003 Posted August 20, 2003 Power died in Ottawa at about 4:15 Thursday afternoon. I was happily sitting on my couch, reading (and waiting for Armada to come on), while downloading an AMV. My lamp flickered once, and I thought it was just about to burn out. Then everything died with a loud crackle, and I unplugged the computer completely to avert any possibility of a catastrophic surge. I thought it was just a local thing until suppertime, when I walked as far as Rideau Centre in search of food. Elgin street was packed with hungry people, so I came back and had a bowl of cereal. Then I turned on the (battery-powered) radio to acertain the full extent of the crisis. Power came back on sometime during the night (I was asleep when it must've happened), and then died again at noon on Friday. It was only later that the radio guy mentioned the rolling blackouts and the conservation measures. Power came back late Friday afternoon and stayed long enough for me to get a load of laundry done before conking out again. Power came back later that night (and I cooked dinner), and has been on since. Sometime during all this, Cyberus either shut down for power-rationing or just lost a server and couldn't replace it since the Cyberus offices are typically abandoned on weekends anyway. I just got internet access back last evening. Fortunately, once the blackouts seemed over I was able to get quite a bit of writing done. Equally fortunately, I had just backed up all my files a few days previously. BTW Nute, cool avatar.
Commander 598 Posted August 21, 2003 Posted August 21, 2003 Da ich Südwesten mehrereer hundert Meilen lebe, hatte ich keine Störung. Jedoch werde ich mit livng ohne Energie für Stürme eines bis week.(Ice erfahren)
Kylilin Posted August 21, 2003 Posted August 21, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Commander 598 Da ich Südwesten mehrereer hundert Meilen lebe, hatte ich keine Störung. Jedoch werde ich mit livng ohne Energie für Stürme eines bis week.(Ice erfahren) Thats what I'm saying too...
Flying Beastie Posted August 21, 2003 Posted August 21, 2003 *resets the battle-droid's linguistic subroutines* Okay; again.
Commander 598 Posted August 22, 2003 Posted August 22, 2003 Puesto que vivo vario cientos millas de sudoeste de cualquier interrupción de la energía, puedo decir con seguridad: "Ningún Apagón."
Kylilin Posted August 22, 2003 Posted August 22, 2003 Siete molto fortunati. Non facendo succhiare aria condizionata.
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