# Finally! The powers back!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 15, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561 "2003-08-15T00:31:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SureShot](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SureShot)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/1 "2003-08-15T00:31:31Z")
Jeesh - the power has been out for like 6 hours here, it’s crazy to think that you cant go ANYWHERE and get any food, supplies, use appliances… just wierd. Guess we are pretty spoiled 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/2 "2003-08-15T00:48:13Z")
my town has a curfew in effect tonight. 9 pm… no travel on the roadways…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/3 "2003-08-15T00:48:54Z")
What if you have to go to the toilet? One thats… very far away?
- Soul :s:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/4 "2003-08-15T00:54:59Z")
uhmm… well I have to walk 7 steps to my toilet… I dunno about you English boys, but my toilet is in my house…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/5 "2003-08-15T00:59:30Z")
so I’ve heard 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/6 "2003-08-15T01:03:14Z")
Be back in 30 mins, going to the toilet :sure:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/7 "2003-08-15T01:04:01Z")
back in a few hours! I’m off to bed! :beam: :love:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/8 "2003-08-15T01:05:58Z")
_waves_ Say goodnight to your sister for me :sure: 😛
- Soul :s:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/9 "2003-08-15T01:07:25Z")
> \*Originally posted by kirupa \*
> \*\*…while the smell of freshly bbq-ed humans permeates the crisp, frozen air filled with the bang and clatter of the nomadic cannibals that make their home among the washed up seaweed that makes the frozen ground even more dangerous to the untrained feet of any normal human being not adept to the slippery, frozen path to the dreary “house of out” beyond the hill, across the bridge, under the tunnel, through a lagoon, and across the moor… \*\*
> bbq-ed humans?! I don’t know where you heard that about yorkshire! 😛
- Soul :s:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/10 "2003-08-15T03:04:21Z")
Just got power back a few minutes ago, a bit of a drag. hot humid beyond belief, although it afforded me some downtime to re acquaint myself
with a nice bottle of Pinot Grigio, Santa Marguerita. Oh sweet buzz.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/11 "2003-08-15T03:16:31Z")
I am guessing you guys are from NY. MY bro got effected from this crap. I have a feeling that it was all caused by the Blaster Worm Virus. It has been annoying people all over america. I believe that is what cause the black out. it’s obvious that alot of things run by a computer, so it may be that PSE&G must have wanted to connect to the network for somthing. THen boom all the turbines shut down ubruptly causeing damage and blowing out sensitive wires
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/12 "2003-08-15T03:29:33Z")
aah… im finally online again 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/13 "2003-08-15T03:33:50Z")
hmm, i live north of hartford and everything was fine here, a split second outage but i was up in no time :-\ yet hartford was out for like the whole day.
sure shot thast nothing! i was out for over 12 hours one time! the power pole accrosse the street got struck by lightning and it took forever to get us back. :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/14 "2003-08-15T09:44:04Z")
I’m at work now. We’re on 13 hours now without power… generator is still kickin.
The deal with the outage, as far as I’ve heard was that it was caused by a lightning strike in Buffalo NY. At least that’s the official story.
wish me luck in here (about to pass out from the heat. 106 degrees in my shop.)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/15 "2003-08-15T15:41:26Z")
yah - around here there are still areas that do not have power yet… and it’s been like 15 hours. Pretty crazy.
It’s all a big consipericy I tells ya!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/16 "2003-08-16T03:34:02Z")
I got the power back at midnight just like promised (for ontario) but i didn’t get internet back untill about 3 hours ago.
I believe canada, it started in the US, what does everyone else think?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/17 "2003-08-16T14:04:29Z")
It was those \*\*\*\* Yankees! 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/18 "2003-08-16T18:20:01Z")
hahahah 🙂
Oh… Yah… I ummm forgot 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/19 "2003-08-16T19:50:10Z")
Haha.
HOw many times to I have to tell you idiots, its not seals, its tourists!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finally-the-powers-back/28561/20 "2003-08-17T02:30:08Z")
how can an outage in the big apple possible reach all the way to the big Snow cone
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