Re: Power outages across northern America

Ok I am with you on the stash raids LN , I need a few more yellows and oranges. Its always the quite ones you have to worry about, nothing like a fire in the power lines on the Canadian side of the border to really make things come to a grinding halt.

Dawn

Can't trust you Canadians. It's the passive ones that will sneak up on ya and throw a monkey wrench into your day! LOL

What has caused the power outs? I only ask 'cause I need to know how much time I have to get in and out of the fabric closets.....

-- Lady Cynthia, Royal Musicmaker

STASH RAAAAAID!!!

Those of us in NJ below Middlesex County did not lose power. I repeat, our stashes are still protected - don't waste the trip!

I was lucky in that I left work about 1/2 hour before the power went down or I'd still be stuck somewhere on the NJ Turnpike!

I went to the Quilt Festival in Manchester NH today, so I didn't know about the power outage until I got a cell call from DD1 when I was halfway home. We never actually lost power at home, but our telephone exchange has been knocked out. DD lost power for a while, but it's back for her and she and the DGDs have gone home. DH's office is in the part of Groton that was still out around 8 o'clock. He came home early, needless to say.

Betty in Eastern CT

I am white gloving at the show tomorrow. How is the a/c in there? Is it comfy or freezing?

How was the show itself? I'm hoping to leave a little early to see the show before working it since I can't stay later.

Don't forget your flashlight!!! Anita

It was very comfortable, I thought--neither too hot nor too cold. See my post on the show. We felt it was well worth the 2 1/2 hour trip. We took about 3 1/2 hours to see everything, though we didn't do much shopping.

Betty in CT

Actually, one of the reports i heard, during the station monitoring we were doing, it was corrected to being NO fire...that the smoke/steam that was seen was the "normal" smoke/steam that results when the generators, etc. were shut down...this from a rep of Con-Edison.

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I have a related question about television journalism. How do the powers that be decide what's a story, what's a big story, and what's a super gigantic story? Some news stories don't make it to television at all. Some can wait until the 6:00p or 11:00p news but don't interupt regular programming. Some get put on television as breaking news every 10 minutes but then go back to regular programs and ads. And some stories, like the one about the electrical black-out in many Northeastern regions, make the news and suspend all advertising and regular programs for several hours.

I could certainly see that it was news. Lots of people were terribly inconvenienced. There will probably be a few deaths. When communication systems go down, t.v. might be the only way people can get news. But why were there no ads on the networks for 5 hours? Why was there nothing else? I could see that the story was big, but that big? Someone with more knowledge of journalism explain this to me, please.

--Lia

Glad to hear you are back on line and have been safe. Fingers crossed there are no further problems.

-- Sandi in New Westminster B.C.

that's not unusal....10 cents is nothing in way of gas price increases.....around us they regularly go up 25-30 every other week or so...just as they get back down almost to where they were, they go back up. ($1.48 Tues am, $1.62 Tues early pm, $1.69 Tues late pm....currently $1.61 per gallon, regular unleaded)

I'm west of Cleveland by about 35 miles and we lost power after 4:00 p.m. Got it back just before it was completely dark; about 9:10 p.m. I'd already filled containers with water and filled the bathtub so we could flush *toilets* - no electricity means no more water pumped up into the water towers - hence no water after a certain amount of time. Cleveland has about two hours worth of water left. Amazing how much we depend on "the Grid". Glad to be back online. In Stitches, Buckeye Bev

ROFLMAO!

Well, as you know, I'm not subtle at all so they would catch me if I tried. :D

Glad to hear you're alright, Candy! :) You're so lucky that you have power again; I've been hearing on this morning's news that millions still don't -- poor things. In this summer heat, I imagine that many are really suffering. Did you hear that 3000 people have died in France because of their heat wave? Most people there don't have AC. :(