oh..christ. The power has just turned on here, in toronto...after..let's see...20 hours 😠 I doubt there was any lightning. The sky was as clear as it could be yesterday ad if the americans also say that..it means it isn't true. It was amaizing...i'm still expecting another black-out any time now. they're doing a power cicle..sending to everyone to try and cool their fridges again a little bit, because they don't expect a full power management untill monday morning..so i dunno what we'll do.
New york was out, boston, buffallo..almost the whole ontario region...hell....north eastern usa and south eastern canada were in the dark. It was very annoying.
HOW CAN SUCH A THING HAPPEN IN THE 21st CENTURY??? they say the line fell like a domino game...😠
The traffic was all screwed up..no subway ofcourse..no stop lights. Civilians directing traffic!!! No gas stations opened..no shops... ANyway..i was pleasantly surprised. The ppl round here really help eachother.
It's the Americans saying it WASN'T lightning, Dexx; the Canadians were saying it was.
And why shouldn't this sort of thing happen in the 21st century? Where the hell did this impression of infallibility come from? Things go wrong. large scale failures CAN happen. That is the way of things. I am sure they will now spend millions on an upgrade which realy does not- and cannot- solve the central problem of all things, which is that ALL things can fail.
i heard that people were really freaking out over there. did anybody die, i wonder?? and Bush is saying he thinks it wasn't terrorist-related. i doubt it was, probably just a big blow-out. but they say it was the biggest blackout in history since 1966 and 1974 i think it was?
and also i was watching the news today and they said it wasn't lightning cuz they would've seen it or detected it. so it wasn't the cause of that.
one person died...we had one candle related fire. the americans had 60 😛.
I'm saying ush..that such a thing could have been prevented. ontario already had a power deficit....a surplus would have been good in such a time. SO they were supposed to be watching the things.....to separate the lines from one another..not just let it overload one another till all the network falls. Even so..let's say it falls...but you don't take 3 DAYS!! to fix it....