Power outages

[2camaros]

So I heard on the news parts of Cleveland were out, anyone here loose power?

[TPI383]

I know Josh did.
So id guess a few others local to that area did

[Stu162]

We lost power at 4:09 and it came back around 4 am

[Nick T]

Lost it here...came back at 11:20pm.

[87IROC Z]

Same here. We lost power around 4pm and it came back just after 4am. What sucks though is that now we dont have any water. :(

[84Berlinetta]

We were lucky in Twinsburg... no loss of power, but water was lost about 9:30PM. Water pressure did not return until about 9:30AM.

Independence was without electricity until about 10:30AM... just got into work and hardly anyone is here.

...and out again!!! At 1:00PM, the rolling blackouts hit us at work once again. I lost another hour of work when the PC went down yet again... then they sent us home for the second day straight. :(

[JaysZee]

Power was off until about 8:00 AM at home and the shop. The power is now off at home again. :(

[87IROC Z]

Originally posted by JaysZee
Power was off until about 8:00 AM at home and the shop. The power is now off at home again. :(

Ive heard that rolling blackouts are to be expected all day. Joelles parents lost power again this afternoon also. Ive even heard that ohio might be the place where all this started. Not new york like they originally thought.

[2camaros]

Wow that sucks. Good luck.

[87IROC Z]

Well the water was back up and running when i came home. But its still pretty nasty. Its really yellow and cloudy with a funny smell to it. :ugh:

[2camaros]

Yep Cleveland made it on the news as having a water emergency with residents advised to boil water.

[largefish]

We lost power at work yesterday about 4:15, but there was a big flicker a few minutes before that. Batteries handled the transition fine for the proctected equipment(several mainframes, a ton of servers and the help desk area) and by the time I wandered downstairs the diesel generator was running. The rest of the building was down until power came on sometime this morning, but I guess they weren't allowing access to the building before 7 AM. Menu offerings for lunch changed to mainly deep fried food and it was a very light crowd today. Well I'm liking what I'm seeing from my Brownies right now, 14-7 and I think the defense is starting to get in a rhythm. Pass defense. We didn't have water problems in Berea since we aren't on the Cleveland system.

[2camaros]

Yep I was about to get ready to go out myself, but I happend to channel surf and see the Browns vs Green Bay. Had to stay home for that.

Heh I just noticed that Green bay picked up x Bungals Akili Smith, LOL. Boy the waves of fear he must instill in our defence. :roll:

[largefish]

Well I no sooner wrote that and the defense fell apart somewhat. Good thing they have a few more weeks before it coutns...

[2camaros]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Northeast_Blackout

Whooohoo it was Ohio's fault. One more thing to add to the state's slate, caused blackout of 2003. ;)


WASHINGTON - A failure to contain problems with three transmission lines in northern Ohio just south of Cleveland was the likely trigger of the nation's biggest power blackout, a leading investigator said Saturday.

[My1stCamaro92RS]

Now we know where Homer Simpson actually works...Eastlake. The Eastlake plant is an embarrassment to EPA air quality standards and I would care less if they closed this acid air producing plant and leveled it for a parking lot or let the grasses take over and have an addition to the lagoons. From Beachwood you can see the yellow ribbon of pollution it puts out flowing from their stacks on the horizon. Which usually floats towards Fairport with the right wind conditions, which is usually most of the time. But that's OK cause I'm paying 40 bucks a year for emission testing knowing that my car is not adding more sulphur to the air this compounding the problem.

[2camaros]

Originally posted by My1stCamaro92RS
Now we know where Homer Simpson actually works...Eastlake. :haha:

[chainsaw]

Originally posted by My1stCamaro92RS
From Beachwood you can see the yellow ribbon of pollution it puts out flowing from their stacks on the horizon. Which usually floats towards Fairport with the right wind conditions, which is usually most of the time. But that's OK cause I'm paying 40 bucks a year for emission testing knowing that my car is not adding more sulphur to the air this compounding the problem.

not really much we can do about it anyway..... :(

i figure we'll have emmissions down here within 5 years..... if not statewide.

[My1stCamaro92RS]

You need a govenor or at least a legislature with a backbone like PA. He shut the program down weeks before it was initialized with the realization that the benefits did not merit the cost to the public. PA was sued by the emission testing group but he was willing to accept that bill.

The other side of the coin is that in PA emissions are still done but given during a general safety inspection of a car too.

[2camaros]

Deleware had all that goodness also, but its "free" to the consumer at least you dont have to hand them a $20 like in ohio after the test...paid for via taxes of course.