I am one of the lucky few with electricity tonight. My daughter is
still stuck on a Metro train in NY, trying to get home to Albany.

I hope she returns home safely.
As of now, everything looks pretty calm throughout the City.
Wasn't the case in '77


***News Flash*** NBC just announced a report that lightning struck a
Niagara Mohawk powerplant, causing the cascade. What?????

Funny, the weather records don't show any storm activity near the plant.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KIAG.html

http://www.weathermatrix.net/2003/08...0308141800.gif

"Joe" wrote in message .. .
I am one of the lucky few with electricity tonight. My daughter is
still stuck on a Metro train in NY, trying to get home to Albany.

I hope she returns home safely.
As of now, everything looks pretty calm throughout the City.
Wasn't the case in '77


***News Flash*** NBC just announced a report that lightning struck a
Niagara Mohawk powerplant, causing the cascade. What?????

Funny, the weather records don't show any storm activity near the plant.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KIAG.html

http://www.weathermatrix.net/2003/08...0308141800.gif

JoeTechnician,
Seeings how you (you think) are the most intelligent, most sought
after engineer (sic) on the planet, hasn't Bush contacted you to get
to the bottom of this? Or perhaps he realizes you are a liar, and are
busy pulling cable.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:29:26 GMT, "Joe" wrote:

I am one of the lucky few with electricity tonight. My daughter is
still stuck on a Metro train in NY, trying to get home to Albany.

I hope she returns home safely.
As of now, everything looks pretty calm throughout the City.
Wasn't the case in '77


***News Flash*** NBC just announced a report that lightning struck a
Niagara Mohawk powerplant, causing the cascade. What?????

Funny, the weather records don't show any storm activity near the plant.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KIAG.html

http://www.weathermatrix.net/2003/08...0308141800.gif


Thanks for your good wishes, Joe. My daughter is home, safe and
sound, about 12 hours behind schedule.

noah

On 14 Aug 2003 18:33:05 -0500, noah
wrote:


I am one of the lucky few with electricity tonight. My daughter is
still stuck on a Metro train in NY, trying to get home to Albany.

***News Flash*** NBC just announced a report that lightning struck a
Niagara Mohawk powerplant, causing the cascade. What?????

Regards from the Great, Dark, Northeast,
noah

i'm sitting here in allentown, PA listening on VHF to the FDNY handle
the situation. as usual, they are doing a great job. they're
reporting the CG tells them there's a fire on governor's island.
these folks really are the best.

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noah wrote in message . ..
On 14 Aug 2003 23:13:02 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

Within the last couple of days they arrested two guys at the Seattle airport.
One was on the "do not fly" list.
Both had Pakistani passports, and had slipped illegally into the US across the
Candian border at Blaine.

Both guys paid cash for one-way tickets to NY.

Was it a coincidence that they wanted to be in NY this afternoon?
Probably.

At first, I wondered the same as you did. As this thing unfolds, it
seems that our local northern NY power company, Niagara Mohawk,
experienced a major failure, and knocked down the Northeast grid like
a box of Dominos. Coincidently, Niagara Mohawk was sold to a British
Corporation a few years ago, and service has suffered ever since.

In my opinion, we are vulnerable enough when our utilities are
controlled by corporate interests. We are even more vulnerable, as a
society, when our utilities are controlled by a foreign corporate
interest.

I am one of the lucky few with electricity tonight. My daughter is
still stuck on a Metro train in NY, trying to get home to Albany.

***News Flash*** NBC just announced a report that lightning struck a
Niagara Mohawk powerplant, causing the cascade. What?????

Regards from the Great, Dark, Northeast,
noah

One thing, even though there has been many, many upgrades through the
years, Niagara Mohawk is one of the oldest grids in the U.S. Also, I
heard the lightning theory also, but the National Weather Service said
the closest lightning strike in the area was hundreds of miles away,
in Maryland.