Power Outage

[threeplusfire]

The word at the moment is that it is a massive power grid failure, not terrorism. The phones are crazy, but I'm trying to get ahold of NYC people.

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[delchi.livejournal.com]

Me too. Let me knwo what the deal is

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Its looking pretty stable, considering the bad crazyness. I don't quite believe the current news, and I'm sure some weird shiz will be evident soon.

My phone line is down until I charge teh battry. Catch me on AIM

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

At work now, but I spoke to Kat and R, and they are well.

Nobody ever remembers anything or pays any attention

[curmudgn]

We been there before. Twice, even.

The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965

New York Blackout of 1977

Re: Nobody ever remembers anything or pays any attention

[n-o-m-i-c.livejournal.com]

You don't even have to think back that far. The California blackouts a couple years ago(?), post-deregulation. Not to mention that August is a terribly common time for blackouts and brownouts.

Re: Nobody ever remembers anything or pays any attention

[rawumber.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Rolling black outs nad brown outs are a way of life out here.

kindly snark in your own journal

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I do know large scale power failures happen. It's not entirely unreasonable for people with little or no information to wonder what the hell was going on, especially when they are standing on the corner of Avenue C & 3rd, watching the smoke from ConEd drift over the city.

Actually, I did that

[curmudgn]

I turned it into a snarl in my own LJ, then got called away and didn't get to kill the comment over here. And really, what I said here wasn't intended as snarky. It's more the despair of middle age and long memory watching the world repeating itself.

it's not unexpected

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think the government and the media have done a lot to create a sort of expectation of terror amongst the folks, and so even ordinary problems become tainted with the suspicion that it might be terrorism.

It's alrighty really.

[lawnrrd]

My wife was able to call me from Manhattan. She said things are crazy, in the sense that the streets are full of people and you can't get anywhere, but sane in the sense that people have yet to go nuts or start burning or smashing things.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The streets look mad, mad, mad. All those people. I hope your wife can get home alright in the crowds.

[lawnrrd]

Oh, yes, she did: that's where I spoke with her. Her office is just over two miles from our apartment, so I expect the walk was just under the threshhold of being really fucking annoying. Meanwhile, because our apartment is relatively central, it's become a drop-in center for our friends who can't make it back home.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Well that's good. So you can at least hang out, instead of sitting in the dark all night long wondering what everyone else is doing. ;)

[lawnrrd]

Well, they can. I'm in Chicago.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Oops. I thought you were home by now for some reason.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Reporting in: hiked from the West Village to Park Slope. Have swollen aching feet and aching back (was carrying pounds and pounds of stuff), but made it home. Am tired and cheerfully cranky.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Eeek. I am glad you made it home. We will send the buzzards to air deliver pages to fan you and put your feet up.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Howdy. Took a brief swing by piano bar yesterday; walked home without event; glad to hear K & R are well, too.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Hurrah. Hope it's not too hot and sticky up there. Could you see stars?

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

It is, in fact, mugginess (muggosity?( personified. Yes, I saw stars- for only the third time this year. Phoo.