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Where'd the power go?!
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Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:48 pmby Coltess
Most of you probably already know that the north east United States and all of Ontario, Canada, is suffering from a total blackout. If you didn't know that, get updated here:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power. ... index.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/952578.asp?0cv=CA01
Posted:
Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:03 pmby Ichyro
IT IS NOT BIN LADEN.....
It's phillip Ross! 
Posted:
Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:46 pmby Lazyimperial
and what is my favorite thing about this? Most americans are such paranoid psychotics they immediately thought it was terrorism. Never occured to them that a power plant could have screwed up, causing a chain reaction over the power grid knocking out eastern North America.
Power plant screw up? massive super terrorist magical plot from heck? Must have been the terrorists.
Posted:
Fri Aug 15, 2003 12:14 amby Ichyro
We need a "common foe", basically...
Awhile ago, the idiots of the world (I.E. Humanity) blamed the jews for every little problem.
Now, its terrorists...
My husband is impotent, its TERRORISTS!
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Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:35 amby ubarleet
hey, i went camping with my girlfriend awhile back, and my friends tried to sneak salt peter into EVERYTHING, thats terrorism, lmao
Posted:
Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:42 amby Mukizu
The blackout must have been cause by aliens, I think it was about the same time that they landed
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Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:03 amby Firia
Lazyimperial wrote:Power plant screw up? massive super terrorist magical plot from heck? Must have been the terrorists.
I don't know about generalized stupidity really. Potential terrorism did cross my mind when I heard about the power outages, but I reserved any judgment for after all the facts had come in. So I don't think that everyone jumped to their feet crying terrorist attack. I don't know where you may have gotten that impression from.
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Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:23 amby Mukizu
Firia wrote:I don't know about generalized stupidity really. Potential terrorism did cross my mind when I heard about the power outages
AHA! U did think it was terrorism - at least for a while
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Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:27 amby Firia
I see you chose to cut my words off at a choice location. ¬_¬
Firia wrote:but I reserved any judgment for after all the facts had come in.
I noted that terrorism was a possability.
I did not decide it was terrorism. I felt it'd be better to wait until the facts came in.
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Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:47 pmby Ashval
*agrees with Firia*
Assuming that a large group of people made an assumption is...illogical.
Any American who wouldn't consider terrorism a POSSIBILITY would have to be considered naive and narrow-minded. Just because the media likes throwing that word around to make headlines doesn't mean the general American populace was immediately crying "terrorism." *rolls eyes*
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Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:01 pmby Nexeus
Well the power went out in ALL of NYC (where I live) suprizingly, it wasn't as scary as it was annoying...
we were told to treat it as a warm snow day... ohh look at all of that 90 degree snow!
Posted:
Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:50 pmby Gridfan
I thought (and still think) it was a computer bug/glitch in a section of the powersystem that handles the balancing. (overpower vs overload etc)...
Seems my guess was pretty correct...
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Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:36 amby Tacz
I got my power back a few hours ago, but my ISP JUST got theirs back =/
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Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:12 pmby Mukke
whatever it was just blame it on Al queda... why? coz they live in a cave someplace in the third world, they're angry and they take dumps in a hole in the ground, that's why....I like this enemy-thinking, it's good therapy and helps on my low selfesteem