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Power is back on in my town after the big black out on the east coast. It was about 4:20 PM yesterday when the lights started to flicker and then dim. The lights stayed dim for a while. Not wanting to ruin our new refrigerator or washer, I shut the main breaker off.
I get paged from work, duh, not much I can do! But fortunately power returns a couple hours later. Power was restored to my house about 10:30 PM.
My brother is an operating engineer in NYC. He called me about 9:30 and told me NYC was out. He said it was massive grid lock with people only moving 1 car length in about 45 minutes! I couldn't imaging even wanting to try to leave in those conditions!
Canada is saying a power plant was hit by lightning.
I get paged from work, duh, not much I can do! But fortunately power returns a couple hours later. Power was restored to my house about 10:30 PM.
My brother is an operating engineer in NYC. He called me about 9:30 and told me NYC was out. He said it was massive grid lock with people only moving 1 car length in about 45 minutes! I couldn't imaging even wanting to try to leave in those conditions!
Canada is saying a power plant was hit by lightning.