US&Canada in darkness

Yeah, watching the blame game is rather amusing.

The Canadians said it was caused by a lightning strike on the American side of Niagara. Then they said it was just a fire there. Soon afterwardds, they said it was in fact a fire at a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. Then they said it was not a fire, but an outage. After this accusation was called 'bizarre' by the Americans, as it was blatantly not true, the Candians eventually settled by saying it was some problem, somewhere, with one of the plants in the north-east US. Apparently.

Not wanting to be outdone on the wild accusations the US played their part rather well. At first they blamed a general power transmission problem in Canada, but that wasn't weird enough so THEN they went on to blame, of all things in all places, a lighting strike in obviously unaffected Quebec. I am sure there is SOME logic behind that accusaton but it has not been made clear to me.

Of course, it is people that speak rather than countries; on the Canadian side it was the aide to Prime Minister Jean Chretien, and then the defence Minsiter John McCallum and his spokesman, both of whom are probably rather wishing they had stayed quiet, whilst on the American side no less a people than Hilary Clinton and Michael Bloomburg were making their confident assertions...

Why don't you care? I mean that's really mean. You shouldn't say things like that. Exspecially if everyone is worried about this situation. And who cares who did it! Just fix the problem! You know...people these days.

Don't you think it is important that officials get to grip with making a sensible investigation into the cause rather than simply firing wild accusations about each other? The people affected by this are NOT served by petty blame games.

And quite by what logic you think that finding out who did it- i.e. the CAUSE- is not important to fixing it, I do not know! But I reckon you should tone down hasty accusations of me not caring in future.

It's almost amusing to see how all of these causes of what happened are presented when in fact nobody fully confirmed. IT seems that the overloaded line is the most probable cause. Ontario had broken it's consume record a few days earlier. i dunno...i'm gratefull they didn't shut the power down anymore since then.

i personally think it's not all that necessary to point blame, but once they find out what happened (in either countries) that country can learn to improve on their system next time something like this happens. i don't think it's all that important, but as long as they fix it and know what to do next time it happens, everything'll be cool.

the blame has to fall on someone, in the end. it always does...(i'd call it a side effect of democracy...picking escape goats 😉 )

I loved how a guy called the info office after the power had gone down for a few hours saying that
"i don't have no god damn power! only the nuclear power plant is lit like a fu*kin christmass tree!!" 😆

somebody needs a hug

Looks like Ohio is going to get the guilty verdict!

And I am sorry, Angel, I see you were talking to Tex... but you really should make that clearer in future, when you are replying to something a few posts up!

looks like Bush should take a serious look at alternative energy sources

it was a bright sunny day imagine what a little solar power could have done for all of us

(all the highway street lights in germany had separate solar pannels....each!! 😱 and i don't assume it stops there)

that's right..blame the americans...i felt it was their fault 😈

some of the highway lights in Charleston have those panels by them so it can be done

You still can't run an energy grid on solar power. The Niagara power plant is hydroelectric as it is, which is pretty alternative already.

yes, of course. But whatever solar energy can be used to draw some things off the main power grid is welcomed.

I'm sorry Ushgarak, I'll make sure to make it more clear next time. And why would Ohio be blames? Did they do something that I didn't hear on the news or something...

they pulled the plug, the bastards 😛

The fault seems to have been traced to there, is all.

I blame Ohio for everything...like Cleveland

Lol, I was born in Ohio. I dunno, I guess we'll have to see.

I saw something that said an alarm was broken that should have alerted someone to switch to back-up power when three transmission lines went down.

*bored face* oh..that's a new one.
*writes it down*