MAJOR POWER OUTAGE HITS NY, TORONTO, CLEVELAND, OTTAWA, ETC

[Anonymous]

Although not as severe, we suffered two power outages here in Lake Tahoe this last winter each lasting about 6 hours or so during severe snow storms. Fortunately, we have a 5000 watt generator w/ an 8 hour gas tank...It saved my 3 tanks...whew. I feel for you folks, really do.

 

[esmithiii]

Apart from my fish tank world, I just lined up for almost 2 hours to get gas.

Yikes!

Ernie

 

[Chucker]

My personal record is no phone for 10 days, no phone for 14.

The earliest measurable snowfall at Albany (NY), where 6.5" inches fell, with as much as 20" reported in parts of the Catskills. The storm wreaked havoc on the area because it was a heavy, extremely wet snow, which fell on fully leaved trees. Numerous branches and trees were felled...taking down power lines with them, blocking roads and damaging houses. Albany was described as "looking like a war zone." Hundreds of thousands of people were without power...some for up to two weeks. It was the most snow that ever fell during the month of October in Albany.

 

[aesop]

I'm in Toronto, and lost power yesterday at 4:00pm (was at work on the 14th floor); at 4:30 we were all told to go home...

Fast foward to 12midnight (still no power) and I'm stirring and dumping buckets of water from my sump into the main tank. Naso Looks like hes half dead. Marine betta is out swimming around.

Firday morning (word was it would be restored by morning; lying SOB!!) checked my tank over; marine betta is dead; cleaner shrimp is missing, and the water is freezing cold (in basement).

More stirring; more water dumping..

12-2pm Start calling around to see who has power; Ended up taking the "important" stuff to a friends father's who lives about 15mins away who has power. Everything is in a large storage bin; and aerated using an air pump.

Regain power again around 6-7pm (was out of the house), Setup two more 100w heaters (total of three) to heat up the water. Bring the stuff back home, and the container is milky in colour (doens't smell so great either). fish look fine, corals could use some help; and the clams I won't know till a few days later when hopefully things are stabilized.

So far
Marine Betta
Cleaner shrimp (one MIA also)
Octobubble (looks melted)
Frog spawn (diddo)
Red Sea Xenias (melted)

I'm sure it could be alot worst. :roll: (and possible get worst, theres word of rolling blackouts). And of course all the hardware stores have no backup power supply units now

 

[Anonymous]

This was the largest power blackout in world history.

-Nathan

:roll: :roll:

largest power blackout took place in India and left about 220 millions people without electricity.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/ASIANOW/south/01/02/india.blackout/

L8r,

Esmart

 

[esmithiii]

Well, it all depends on the metric that you use to determine "largest blackout"- it could be megawatt hours lost, or people hours. If you look at people-hours, since the north east US blackout was longer (up to 48 hrs for many as opposed to 13 for the indian blackout) it could potentially be "larger".

As you already know (from living in France) anything outside the US doesn't count. Recently I asked some of my friends and work associates who was the most popular/well known athelete in the world. Not a single one of them had heard of him- they couldn't believe that it wasn't Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan.

Ernie

 

[Expos Forever]

As you already know (from living in France) anything outside the US doesn't count. :wink:

LOL

At least you people realize. :wink:

As a side note, it's been interesting to watch the blame game. NYC mayor Bloomberg stated yesterday that the problem started in Canada. Canadian news is saying the problem likely started in the US...

Sorry to hear about your losses Aesop. Hope everything else makes it through OK.

 

[esmithiii]

Has Tim Horton (the prime minister) made a statement yet?

Anyone want to guess the name of the most well-known athelete in the world?

Ernie

 

[Expos Forever]

Has Tim Horton (the prime minister) made a statement yet?

No but Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky is due to speak shortly. :wink:


Is it David Beckham?

 

[SeaView]

I'm on LI and was down for over 24 hrs. Got stuck late at work and had to be in early the next day. Didn't have much time to address the problems in the reef. Lost 1 flame angel. Everything else looks fine.

My outdoor koi pond fared far worse. Between the 90 heat, reduced O2 levels and zero filtration I lost 4 of my largest fish. They were all spawned in the pond 5yrs ago. Pretty depressing.

Hope everyone else got by with minimal damage.

 

[Anonymous]

Well, it all depends on the metric that you use to determine "largest blackout"- it could be megawatt hours lost, or people hours. If you look at people-hours, since the north east US blackout was longer (up to 48 hrs for many as opposed to 13 for the indian blackout) it could potentially be "larger".

yep, esmithiii, you are right :wink:
same goes for blackouts and earthquakes .... one that kill 10 can be worse than the one that kill 200 000.
what makes the worst earthquake is how high it goes on the Richter's scale. not how many pople it kills/impacts, right? :roll:

L8r,

 

[iomegas_reef]

The news is soooo stupid. Not (2) two seconds after this occured the news programs already labeled it:

The outage of 2003!

I heard them say it on the headlines. I laughed so hard I had to run to the bathroom and try and not pee on the lenolium floor. They will do anything to create a major drama in our petty lives.

hahaha, I practically did the same thing. BLACKOUT 2003!OOOOOH!

 

[Expos Forever]

investigator1 wrote:
The news is soooo stupid. Not (2) two seconds after this occured the news programs already labeled it:

The outage of 2003!

I heard them say it on the headlines. I laughed so hard I had to run to the bathroom and try and not pee on the lenolium floor. They will do anything to create a major drama in our petty lives.

hahaha, I practically did the same thing. BLACKOUT 2003!OOOOOH!

Are you guys in the same kindergarden class? Several people have lost their tanks, a few have lost their lives... SOme are without power as we speak. Let me guess, you're a left-coaster also?

 

[esmithiii]

Well, it all depends on the metric that you use to determine "largest blackout"- it could be megawatt hours lost, or people hours. If you look at people-hours, since the north east US blackout was longer (up to 48 hrs for many as opposed to 13 for the indian blackout) it could potentially be "larger".

yep, esmithiii, you are right :wink:
same goes for blackouts and earthquakes .... one that kill 10 can be worse than the one that kill 200 000.
what makes the worst earthquake is how high it goes on the Richter's scale. not how many pople it kills/impacts, right? :roll:

L8r,

Esmar tuek-

You are obviously missed the sarcastic tone of my post. That is why I used the Winking Emoticon.

Seriously, 60 million people without power for 24 hours, a good portion of those were effected for 48hrs while the indian blackout was for 13 hours. If you consider the cost of the two blackouts, this one was the biggest in the world's history (not counting the millenia before electricity was discovered, of course.)

Ernie

 

[Expos Forever]

What about my guess Ernie?

 

[Anonymous]

Well, it all depends on the metric that you use to determine "largest blackout"- it could be megawatt hours lost, or people hours. If you look at people-hours, since the north east US blackout was longer (up to 48 hrs for many as opposed to 13 for the indian blackout) it could potentially be "larger".

yep, esmithiii, you are right :wink:
same goes for blackouts and earthquakes .... one that kill 10 can be worse than the one that kill 200 000.
what makes the worst earthquake is how high it goes on the Richter's scale. not how many pople it kills/impacts, right? :roll:

L8r,

Esmar tuek-

You are obviously missed the sarcastic tone of my post. That is why I used the Winking Emoticon.

Seriously, 60 million people without power for 24 hours, a good portion of those were effected for 48hrs while the indian blackout was for 13 hours. If you consider the cost of the two blackouts, this one was the biggest in the world's history (not counting the millenia before electricity was discovered, of course.)

Ernie

bis repetita :wink: <--- winking emoticon !
looks like you misinterpreted my answer :lol:

L8r,

 

[Anonymous]

After walking home from Manhattan (I live in Brooklyn, 10 miles or so away,) I went right to work with a turkey baster and a couple cans of Sprite. Oh yeah, and beer for me. 6 hours later (4:30 AM) the power kicked back on and I finally went to bed.

It looks like I may loose a bubble coral. I was nursing him back to health after he landed face down and I didn't notice for a day or two. But he may just make it.

I lost the last fish in my 100 gallon, so I started to break it down today. I emptied the tank and filled it with clean water. It goes up on ebay this week. I'm sad to see it go, but it IS financing my new reef tank. . .

Here's a pic from the walk home.

 

[esmithiii]

Has Tim Horton (the prime minister) made a statement yet?

No but Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky is due to speak shortly. :wink:


Is it David Beckham?

Not David Beckham, but good guess! (Hint: Wrong sport)

 

[Expos Forever]

Anna Kournikova?

 

[esmithiii]

Wrong sport again. Hint: The athelete's uniform is bright red.