ooooohhhhhhh my turn...

can i just say :( ?

what a long night of hell!! i guess i can say FORTUNATELY (?) cuyahoga falls, ohio has their own power supply system that was not affected at any given time....full power! i wanted a blackout :(

i work at applebee's and went into work at 5pm yesterday. From the moment i walked in until about 11:30 (we close at midnight) we were on AT LEAST an half hour wait if not longer. i was so slammed...my one manager didnt get to go home and had been there since 10:00 am and my other manager couldnt even leave the front door cause we were SOOOO busy.

we had another nearby store bringing there food over cause they lost their power and didnt want the food to go bad. at one point, we didnt have cups and we didnt have silverwear at another time and i have 4 tables out of my 5 that had food with nothing to eat it with.

we ran out of SOOOO much food! and i swear every phone call was someone calling to see if we had power... there was at least one table that i was aware of that drove over an hour just to eat cause nothing was open anywhere

my best friend had to go back into work cause he works at a hotel, which is also in cuyahoga falls and they filled up COMPLETELY in like a half hour or so cause people needed electricty and couldnt stay at home without it! :rolleyes: poor wittle people that cant live without tv...imagine life before electricty...

the worst part was that my tips were so shitty - all of ours were cause people were being shitty to us :( i almost lost my temper a couple times...i was not enjoying this anymore than anyone eating there...

soo...yeah...so much for blackout 2003 :rolleyes: we had "power 2003"

I was at work when we lost power... fortunately I live one town over and my commute is mostly back streets.

I could find only one clear station on the entire AM band. Meantime, the FM stations were all up and running and playing Christina Aguilera like nothing had happened. :rolleyes:

Interesting driving tidbit: When power is out, intersections normally controlled by a traffic light should be treated as if there were stop signs. Oddly enough, nobody in my area seems to know this, with the exception of a certain AEPhi who followed the rules and nearly got creamed for her troubles.....

We also lost our phone lines and had to rely on our cell phones. Cell coverage in my area is spotty at the best of times, so there I was wandering around the front yard seeking the elusive cell phone signal. :( And Mr. aephi alum had decided that it was more important that HIS cell be fully charged, so he had pulled mine off the charger, so my cell's battery was flat. :mad: Wound up charging my cell off my computer's UPS.

Tuna fish sandwiches for dinner. Ugh. :( Fortunately we have a manual can opener!!!

Power was restored at around 2:30am. First thing we turned on: the air conditioner!

It is just amazing how dependent we are on electrical power. I couldn't do my job (software engineer/database administrator) because the computers were down. Driving home was an adventure because there were no traffic signals (and no cops directing traffic). No TV, no internet, no power for the electric stove (hence the tuna), no water (we have a well: no electricity = no pump = no water), nada.

Anyway, hope everyone else is ok. :)

Did anyone else had the urge to go to New York and reenact your favorite scenes from "The Warriors"?

"Can the warrior come out and play?"

give it up arya :)

Our power just came on.... I don't think I have ever jumped out of bed so quickly in my life. It was such a misereable 20 hours!!!

i can imagine me using the vaccuum with the music turned up loud when the power goes out. . .getting scared and falling asleep while crying(my nearest relative would be in Texas). . .and suddenly, the next day jumping out of bed and screaming because everything turned back on when the power came on.


blackout would not be cool

i bet a lot of broke college students were like 'i know i paid the light bill. . .'

My power went out for 12 hours yesterday. It wasn't too bad actually. Only I was bored as hell. Also, I wasn't staying in my own home so I couldn't find a flash light, and I only had 5 or 6 candels, that weren't all that great.

It's really a pain in the a$$ when all there is to do is read a book...and do you know how difficult it is to do by candellight??

Somebody Need A Cookie

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what kind? :)

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<<LOL. Hope she's ok and not doing what I usually do in a power outage....DRINK. lol>>


That's what everyone was doing! I was at work when everything went out. 17 floors later, we moved to a hotel and when we found out it was only a blackout and nothing worse, everyone went out, stocked up on beer, and was sitting in the fancy hotel lobby with beer and cheese nips. The guys on the radio were telling people to get to their local bar 'cause they had to get everything drunk before it went bad. Other people this morning were talking about how they and everyone else in the area who was stranded on the streets got a bunch of cases, someone turned on the radio in their car and they basically had a block party.

my mom was living in manhattan at that time and she was telling me how that happened and to expect it this time as well!

Hey, hate to bring it up...
 

But this kinna chit would happen evry day in Cali 2 years ago... And we had rolling blackouts...

And NO BODY LISTENED TO US!!! IN 2000 and 2001...

So I am sorry it took this kind of incident to get folks to wake up... But, us folks on the West Coast...

At least it didn't happen in LA, 'cuz looting would be a pasttime for some people...

Oh well.

Actually it was a lot more than just Detroit in MI...Lansing and most of it's suburbs had no power as well. The GM plant my bf works at had no power, my dad works for the state and they had no power either. I drove home from my dad's work in 20 mins yesterday right before it hit, when he left it took an hour and a half. I'm assuming it was something of a chain reaction...Detroit draws from Niagra but I don't think Lansing does. I can only guess that some of Detroit tried to rerout from Lansing (or whereever we get it) and that's what knocked us out.

As for greeks being affected...my dad works down the road from Michigan State. I believe there are even a few GLO houses on his road. I don't know if anyone has moved in yet (I'm guessing so) but it seems logical that E. Lansing would be black if everywhere else was...

Re: Hey, hate to bring it up...
 

Well, I heard we are going to be experiencing those rolling black out too this weekend.