Power Outage:What was the 1st U thought Off?
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I'm not here!
I'm nowhere near Toronto right now. In fact, I'm across the pond in Europe. So it was interesting to check into my hotel and flick through the TV lineup. I came across CNN around 4:30 Eastern time. so it was just after the lights went out. Things were still very uncertain, and CNN was doing their usual crap of telling people to remain calm while doing their best to hype up the situation. Their initial reporting was very focussed on New York City, but they did mention Toronto & Ottawa were out too.
So broke out the laptop and surfed in to the CBC where I got the full story. I was even able to listen in on CBC Radio One via a RealPlayer stream. So it was a very interesting experience being here yet still having oodles of juice to surf into any news outlet.
BBC eventually picked up the story, as did Deutsche Welle and TV5. But the converage was of course biggest on CNN.
Over here the newspapers haven't really reported on the situation which kinds of surprises me. Die Welt, Financial Times, The Times of London etc are all carrying normal headlines about European interests, Middle East situations, Iraq etc. The Great Power Blackout is reduced to a small story on the bottom of the front page. Most of the new coverage on TV tonight is centered on economic impact of the outage.
I'm nowhere near Toronto right now. In fact, I'm across the pond in Europe. So it was interesting to check into my hotel and flick through the TV lineup. I came across CNN around 4:30 Eastern time. so it was just after the lights went out. Things were still very uncertain, and CNN was doing their usual crap of telling people to remain calm while doing their best to hype up the situation. Their initial reporting was very focussed on New York City, but they did mention Toronto & Ottawa were out too.
So broke out the laptop and surfed in to the CBC where I got the full story. I was even able to listen in on CBC Radio One via a RealPlayer stream. So it was a very interesting experience being here yet still having oodles of juice to surf into any news outlet.
BBC eventually picked up the story, as did Deutsche Welle and TV5. But the converage was of course biggest on CNN.
Over here the newspapers haven't really reported on the situation which kinds of surprises me. Die Welt, Financial Times, The Times of London etc are all carrying normal headlines about European interests, Middle East situations, Iraq etc. The Great Power Blackout is reduced to a small story on the bottom of the front page. Most of the new coverage on TV tonight is centered on economic impact of the outage.
Re: I'm not here!
Enjoy across the pond. I'll be there next week. Any good sp in the UK? More specifically London area?
Strange days indeed. I have to agree with the CNN sheit...xarir said:
Enjoy across the pond. I'll be there next week. Any good sp in the UK? More specifically London area?
Believe it or not, I flipped a light switch off and the whole damn building went down, flickered back on for 2 seconds, and then went off for good.
What went through my mind?
"Did I do tha-a-a-a-at?" </Urkel>
What went through my mind?
"Did I do tha-a-a-a-at?" </Urkel>
Nah Goober is just a Dupe set up to take the fall by those sneaky Swiss. They knew they needed someone dimwitted to be the pawn in their conspiracy. 
Damn swiss and their delicious hot chocolate.
*DenWa shakes his fist at the sky and curses Goober and the Swiss.
*DenWa shakes his fist at the sky and curses Goober and the Swiss.
If you can, check the news reports. POWER OUTAGE due to lack of modernized grids. So they say...
When power went out...
I turn myself into Good Samaritan and blasted my car radio and broatcasted 99.1news radio(FM) about the breaking news for all the poor downtown workers who were stuck and could not get home. I felt like I helped someone when people came up to tell me "thanks" for informing them of what's going on.
There were around 50 people wrapping around our car for about 2 hrs and one newspaper photographer took pix of me(smile)
Please be careful for a while and help others if you can!
The highlight of my day was when I gave my bottled water to thursty little boy(I had 2 bottles left myself) Mother of the boy was very very thankful and I felt good about it!
xoxo Kyoko
I turn myself into Good Samaritan and blasted my car radio and broatcasted 99.1news radio(FM) about the breaking news for all the poor downtown workers who were stuck and could not get home. I felt like I helped someone when people came up to tell me "thanks" for informing them of what's going on.
There were around 50 people wrapping around our car for about 2 hrs and one newspaper photographer took pix of me(smile)
Please be careful for a while and help others if you can!
The highlight of my day was when I gave my bottled water to thursty little boy(I had 2 bottles left myself) Mother of the boy was very very thankful and I felt good about it!
xoxo Kyoko
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It was Tim "The Toolman" Taylor's fault. He was on loacation at a power generation facility and was operating the new Binford 2000 Ulta-Heavy Duty Generator. He hooked up to the main grid when, as usual, it fried it and everything around it.
Arrrggg....Arrrggg...Arrrggg...."Mooorrreee Power!!!"
Arrrggg....Arrrggg...Arrrggg...."Mooorrreee Power!!!"
