Do we really need power? Um.. yeah...

[amezri]

Right. So we lost power for about 4 hours here. Didn't think much of it until ozw called me and told me that NYC was out. Then mom was listening to the radio and found out most of the Northeast had no power. 'Twas at first suspected to be a terrorist attack (meh..), but was later revealed that lightening struck a plant in Canada. When we got power back, we watched the new a bit and they said that NYC was probably going to be the last place to get restored XD That sucks...

[edit: not thinking clearly... but I meant that they suspected it was lightening that hit the plant. ]

Something that Bloomberg said didn't really make sense... that the ConEd power plant can only put out as much electricity as it's getting from an outside source, which is why it had to be shut down once the Canadian plant went down. That doesn't compute somehow.

It's funny how people don't realize how much they depend on electricity until it's gone. In more rural areas, it's not a huge deal; we're not gonna die without power for several hours. But in place like NYC, it's nearly chaos. I hear everyone was very calm and orderly, though. Yay, New York.

I tried to call ozw back, but the call wouldn't go through. Dropped 2 txt messages, but don't know if those got through either. Also called bluewraith to see if CT had power (he did, but Hartford didn't). It was good talking to him again, since I hadn't in the longest time. He's still working at Ritz, but has a new place with his girlfriend. I miss chatting with him about stupid geeky things ^_^*

So.. without power I was actually mildly productive. I read two Alias prequels: A Secret Life and The Pursuit (a Vaughn novel). I liked the first better and am sort of ashamed to admit that the novels are making me like No-Augh Noah. But only a little. The Vaughn prequel was a little less interesting and the French is not nearly as amusing when I have to read it and try to sound it out. No, I'd much rather have Vartan speaking the lines :-P I'm missing # 3: Disappeared and I want to read that before I read #4, so I'll probably order that at work tomorrow.

Speaking of, I believe it's time for bed.

Comments

[blue_ant]

You said lightening did it ... But that's not actually right. Why? Because no one knows. They haven't got a clue why.

Sigh.

Thankfully we missed the power outtage by 45 minutes. *hugs michigan*

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Uhm, right. Sorry. Tired^_^* I meant to say that they suspected it was lightening or some other non-terrorist related occurance. Unless terrorists can now invoke the forces of nature. They we're all screwed, yeah?

[blue_ant]

Dude. It's all good. And you've been without power.

Ahaha. Yeah. That'd be. Right. I've heard everything tonight. I finally turned off the tv.

[ficchica.livejournal.com]

According to the news over here(uk), there seems to be some disagreement over exactly what caused the cuts, the americans are blaming the canadians and the canadians are blaming the americans. No change there then!

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Heh. Now it's possible something internal. They're blaming Ohio.

[ronniefairy.livejournal.com]

You loose power and the rest of the world knows about it... but then I suppose that we do get news stories about cows walking across the highways so a power outage in the US, counts as big news

[amezri.livejournal.com]

It really wasn't as big of a deal as they're making it out to be, not to me anyway. Then again, had we been bombed also...

[queenmaab.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, that was LOT'S of fun. not. i was supposed to meet a friend out for dinner at the panera's accross from crossgates...and i didn't know if she was going to brave the traffic to come over from troy to meet me...so i ended up going that way...biiiiig mistake. if they were calm in nyc, they weren't in albany. *gah*

don't people know the "if the traffic light is out, treat it like a four way stop" rule?!?!?! grr. i only live by the water tower at the end of washington ave...took me over an hour to get back there!! >_<

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

we were out of power for six hours. Had to close the store down. Blah.

It was alright till the sun went down. Then I was sitting in the dark with nothing to do and a cell that didn't work. >_

[amezri.livejournal.com]

My cell worked.. but I didn't know who to call ^_^*

[bee-oh-three.livejournal.com]

We got REALLY dicked in southern Westchester, no power for almost an entire 24 hours. But it's all good, we found ways to entertain ourselves.

However, as you said, it is truly amazing how much we rely on electricity and how much of an inconvenience it becomes when it disappears.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

*nod* But that's it, you know? It's an inconvenience. It's not the end of the world and it's not like someone was bombing us... *cough*