anyone else?

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Lyinar Ka`Bael had this to say about Pirotess:
What exactly is a brownout?

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partial loss of power...

blackout = full loss of power

edit: clocking out before i lose total power again... i'll ttyl when i get home from work

[ 08-14-2003: Message edited by: diadem ]

My monitor just flickered as if it wanted to shut off, but then came back on. Lots of high pitching humming outside...

Why do your companies do them?

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Check out the big brain on Lyinar Ka`Bael!
Huh. Only time we get that is during a storm.

Why do your companies do them?

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because i can. later. =)

NYC probably has the power grid built to handle using that much power - it's like.. in a much smaller sense, my house.

In my house, when you turn the dishwasher on, all the lights dim. If you turn the vaccum on at the same time, you get static on the TV, because we are overusing the power potential for our house - it's the same concept, no matter the size.

In fact, big cities are usally better prepared, because small cities don't think about it as much - Louisville (8,000 poeple) has had them before... the probalem is that 3/4 of the city is on the same grid, including businesses, homes, etc...

So a few years ago, when it was 110+, EVERYONE had on air conditioning... and we were getting minor brownouts.

Also means that when a squirrel suicides on a transformer, the town shuts down.

Oh, and it' not something the power company does - it happens because to many end users are sucking up to much power - the power company wants to avoid brownouts, cause they piss off customenrs.

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It's kind of weird how cool it's been this year.

Same place she was Sept. 10th, 2001. She was on a plane out the day before Sept. 11th.

I hope this is just some "too much AC and power drain" thing

[ 08-14-2003: Message edited by: Suddar ]

North River, North Carolina

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York State official said the Niagara Mohawk power grid overloaded on Thursday, causing a massive power outage, CNN reported, and New York Major Michael Bloomberg said it was likely a natural occurrence.
"It may be well into the evening before power comes back on," Bloomberg told the U.S. cable television network. He said smoke from a Consolidated Edison Inc. plant in the city was due to the plant's automatic shutdown, not to a fire, as had been reported.

He said, "I can tell you 100 percent sure that there is no evidence as of this moment whatsoever of any terrorism."

A massive power outage swept across swaths of the eastern United States and Canada on Thursday, leaving sections of New York, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto without electricity, witnesses said.

It was not immediately clear whether the Niagara Mohawk problem caused the wider outage.

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The guys on CNN said that the FBI is looking into how the msblast virus thingy might have caused this

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diadem had this to say about the Spice Girls:
partial loss of power...

blackout = full loss of power

edit: clocking out before i lose total power again... i'll ttyl when i get home from work

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Blackouts are when you kill all the lights/power in an area, usually to deny targeting ability to enemy bombers

Brownouts are loss of power in any form.

Looks like there was a big Fuck up to Kill a Large grid like that, we had a small loss of power here in Brick NJ, but I believe out power grids are too isolated to affect us largely (Got two power plants real close, the Lake wood Co-Gen plant and Oyster Creek)

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There was much rejoicing when Kahuna Ryuu said this:
Beaufort, North Carolina

North River, North Carolina

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You all lost power?

We didnt here in havelock, its been fine.

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This insanity brought to you by Pesco:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The guys on CNN said that the FBI is looking into how the msblast virus thingy might have caused this

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lol

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ACES! Another post by Ocyrrhoe Trazere:
The traffic is so backed up there that a shitload of people just got out of their cars and start walking home instead.

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Leaving their cars exactly where they were?? That's gunna be annoying for the people behind them when the traffic finally does start to clear...

We have a freeway here nicknamed the "South Eastern Carpark" because of the massive traffic jams it has every day at peak hour (it is not unknown for it to take almost an hour to travel 1 mile..)

.. but sounds like y'all have actually turned streets into carparks..

Detroit and Lansing Michigan went out shortly after 4pm.

The Mayor of NYC is talking now, they are starting to slowly bring back up power segments. I suspect it'll be many hours before everyone is fully back up and running.

No real damage, injuries or loss of life reported.

We still dont have power here in Lansing, but hurray for backup generators.

"This morning, a spokesperson for the Bush administration announced that [some member of Al-Qaeda; apparently he had something to do with bombing a club?] was apprehended. Several hours later, the power outages began. Oh, by the way, this definitely has nothing to do with terrorism, nope, no sir..."

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Alaan wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
I don't think we've ever had much in the way of brownouts here except in storms. Something to be said for being withing 15 miles of a Nuke plant.

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What, that in the case of a meltdown, the Waiszlings will be the only Illinois survivors, since cockroaches can survive nuclear holocaust?

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Pesco had this to say about dark elf butts:
I'm curious as to why the airports are so effected. I always thought they would have some advanced power backup plans so that power to the airports are completely uninterrupted.

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Airports can still recieve flights in, but prevent flights from leaving for safety reasons. There's pretty much always a backup generator for the tower specifically to avoid major problems.

It's messing with my head.