northeast blackouts

[Craig.]

i dont know if anyone has seen this but there are blackouts going on in the northeast detroit new york ottowa and toronto, they are showing live shots from NY on FOX its unbelievable to crowds of people completely gridlocking the roads why i am not sure:)
hope this gets sorted soon as airports have been shut don in new york no flights landing or departing.

[ozzy72]

Oops somebody forgot to put the cheque in the post

[Craig.]

ahahah:) LOL
from what is being said cleveland has been added to the list, one powerplant has caused all this

[ozzy72]

This would be a large building that doesn't make electricity?
They should have paid their bill............

[visitor]

Thank goodness my home is half
solar power, hot water and some
of the outlets. Most of the lights!
Power was off three days because of
a minor fire, but was able to get by,
and stay here the whole time!!
All is fixed, just a little mess to
pick up!!!

Brad

[Craig.]

how about i just say yes:) LOL
whats really sad is that they had to include the message that terrorism isnt suspected::)
ahahah all flights from detroit metro have been cancelled tonight, and being there before i know just how busy it gets.
ok now they are say one transformer went down, and because they are so old its just been a domino effect

[ozzy72]

Playing dominos with transformers? What were they thinking? Surely someone could have just nipped down to the toyshop and brought a box!

[Craig.]

LOL somebodys on form tonight LOL
new jersey and conneticut to be added now, looks like NY airports are back up on generators

[Ivan]

Transformers can cause big fires when the cooling oil gets over the temeprature where it starts to burn out of itself.

[Craig.]

good lord its now down to ohio, and further south.

[tvale80]

thousands of people are stranded in NYC subways

[ozzy72]

There is oil in a transformer? I thought it was just elastic bands and more plastic!!!

[Ivan]

in the ones in your computer there is just plastic and copper wire.

in the big ones for power plants they use to get MORE voltage before sending it through the high-tension lines they have oil coolers

[Woodlouse2002]

[ozzy72]

So they cool high voltage electricity with oil! No wonder it went wrong, you shouldn't mix electicity and liquids, even I know that
I mean if you are in the bath and your drop your toaster in what happens (other than your toast getting soggy!)?
Oh and Woody, love the pic