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Originally posted by krayziigyrl
I am in Rochester which is an hour from Niagra Falls. Sections of the city are with out power. It is now 11:54pm and Im still with out power... Too bad the power is working at work. .
do you think I can get away with being late tomorrow??
Anywhoo from my understanding Niagra Mohawk supplies power to most of the north east. My local power company purchases its power from them. But since only one Grid overloaded these are the cities/states that were affected. When the lights went out the first thing I thought was AAAATTTTACKKKK!!! Then I heard there was speculation that the computer worm my have had something to do with this.
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Same here!
I'm in the Albany area and there were large sections that were without power. I work for a newspaper so we have back up generators but even those were starting to act funny last night!
It's funny how there are so many things that we need electricity for--like gas pumps---there were cars on the side of road out of gas last night because of lack of power. Some people were stuck on elevators, traffic lights were out, TV and radio were knocked out periodically and depending on your cell phone carrier no cell phones. There was a pizza place that was giving out free food in our area because of lack of refrigeration.
I had to go out and cover funeral homes that had wakes last night during the blackout. There were quite a few that were not cancelled---the relatives were understanding even though some of them were in candlelight and no air conditioning.
We got our power back late last night.
I spoke with relatives in Detroit and they were also going through the same thing.
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