How about that power outtage...

But, you can't keep a good DSM down, so we're back!

PS: Don't ask about the posting time... someone had to restart all the servers...

I had power at 9 pm...a/c blowing cold, lights blaring in my eyes

Well I remember the 65 one with the resulting mini baby boom. I hope I didn't get my wife pregnant last night. The thought of having a teenager around when I'm in my mid sixties is horrifying. Had fun though.

Good job getting the site up. ROGERS cable as usual is not working. I've got to get a dish.

Cheers Tony

The power came back up around 5 am this morning at my house. I drove in to work and there are still a lot of areas with no power.

Shagging out of boredom was great last night

That sucked, never realized how dependant I am on power!

Never heard so many sirens going off at once in my life, was chaos I tell you!

wow that was quick.... I had power at around 6:30 this morning.

yeah I don't have to go to work today...

sh!t, out of all places my work is open and I have to go in.. ohh, and I've had sex with a close friend last night for the first time :rolleyes:

there is nothing really funny about having the AC on. Induction loads make the reenergizing the network litterally couple of hundred percents harder. Not everyone is to know the technical details and whys of it but when the the things are chaotic enough to have province wide State of Emergency declatred there is a reason for Hydro ask to shut off induction loads.

I was personally using a computer and the net until 12AM last night but I depended on a set of batteries.


But was a nice experience after all. as unfortunate as it was, it was a much needed to Ontario government to stop fracking ith the Power Network.

Actually I found it rather refreshing... like a huge load was lifted for a time being. That was also the first time I've been able to see the milky way in the city in the 23 years I've been here.

I am Glad to see the DSM site has a bood back up for Power HEHEHEHEH

Some of Ancaster never lost power at all, which was really bizarre. But we had full power, in my part of Hamilton, by midnight.

My parents are in Detroit, and called me last night - They had a curfew of 10 pm! The police were roaming the streets sending everyone home.

Actually Amin, the grid worked absolutely perfectly.

What you say? How so?

When the problem in the states hit, our network scrambed, and shut down, just as it should, to protect us, and itself.

Getting reactors out of "safe" mode, just takes time.

If you want to blame anyone, blame the liberal idiots that keep making everyone move away from nuclear power... if we had more reactors, this might not have had to take as long as it's taking...

BTW, guys, turn off the A/C... my house still has no power, which means no water for me. 7 month old child and mother, in desperate need of power to return.

I am not saying the grid didn't work. In fact i can't see where in my post there was something along those lines.


The grid did work and went into safe mode. But I am sure you know well that capacitive(not inductive actually) loads (most brush motors(universal)) draw a HUGE current to start.


That means if during the start up or in time of a surge there are too many Motors to be started that would make the task REALLY hard. The solution would be to power up cities in smaller chuncks and hence it will take longer. Not that one AC would make a difference in terms of hours we have to wait but these are factors.

Nuclear power is truely safe and infact beside Chernobil(Sp??) it's been incident free however production capacity was part of the problem. A big portion of it was the distribution system which was being stretched to hell and once the over load happened it couldn't run safely anymore.

anyways
I wish you get th epower back soon. I just recieved a call from home that there is no reason for me to go home because water is gone and Elevators dont work.

I dont even have AC!!

Mr. Bienhaus,

I agree, the system worked as it was designed to but maybe there is a better alternative. My friend in Boston, Ontario (you turn south from Paris while heading to London), didn't lose power. He's on a different grid.

I agree on your other point too. I don't use profanities except for that 'four' letter word 'liberal'. Calling someone that is the best way to insult them.

Chill out if you can. I'm going swimming despite the bugs and all. The pump and skimmer need electricity to keep the pool clean. What a nuisance.

Cheers Tony

Tony

I still dont have power at home.

But my office which is 4mins walking distance is, so thats where I am...or will be until i get power..crap..its noon on friday and I still dont have power.

free holiday to enjoy...

Yeah but I actually had to sit and TALK to my girlfreind ALL NIGHT JK.

I had power since midnight, a friend who lives a block away still doesnt have power.
I feel special

I just got power at home 5 minutes ago. No power for 24 hours and 30 minutes. I was at work when it went off, after we powered down all our computers leaving just our servers and phone system up we had 6 hours of battery power left. But we called it a day and shut everything down then we could. I had my gf login to here as me to get some info from a private msg I sent. Between my radio and my 2 scanners I had lots of entertainment during all this. As for odd power how about my power coming on and the house nextdoor to me was dark, they just got power as I am typing this. We are on different grids I have seen it happen before.

NORTH YORK

Got power 4:14 pm today (thank god)

all is well / no problems over here

shop has been closed now for two days loss of about 4 insurance claims grrrrrrrrrrrrr haha

just glad all is ok

best of luck 4 all

Sh*t, I thought I was one of the last to get my power back (I thought maybe I had pissed off God or something). Got it back around 2:00pm today. It seems everybody I called had theirs back hours and hours before me.

No power?, the Devil you say! Yah mine was out for 27 hours. I live in the country and no power means no water, plus my sister has a 2 month old, the heat was killing him. The ranch that my buddy's mom works at has no power still and no water for the 50+ horses that they have, there may be a few casualties if they don't get some power soon.

My power has gone and came back again since I have been home. I guess some parts of KW got power as early as 7pm yesterday. Others at midnight. Mine came back at 5am, then cut out again for anther 2 hours. I guess the word around the campfire is that its gonna keep comming and going around town like that to share the little power we have over the whole area untill it is back up to normal levels.

I think those of us in Burlington got lucky. I know parts of northern Burlington had their power back up as early as 7pm last night, I'm in the south and we've had it since 9pm last night. Looks like it went out once since then, not sure how long, I wasn't home.

I got *really* lucky with gas. The time on my receipt shows 4:11pm. Must've been literally seconds before the power went down when I filled her up.

you could have been even more lucky if you had filled up and right then the power and hence the pump and cash had gone.

shoot..... me and friends are scheduled to go to Shannonville tmr. Now I"m not sure if I should go. Even if I do fill up full tank of gas here in Toronto, I must make sure the Sunoco over there open or else I'll be stuck there somewhere outtown

McGregor ON (Recently Moved)

My power came back on around noon today although I was at work selling grocery & dairy products to customers hard pressed to find bread and milk. I didnt have to be there but what else was I gonna do at home? Might as well help out and that I did. 200 loafs of bread later, 30 bags of milk and cases and cases of bottled water we closed up at 3.

Ive got to say, getting gas wasnt bad at all. The place was packed but it didnt take long at all. Everyone was in an out quickly (Pioneer on Howard)

Im happy the power was back, were surviving on fan power and the windows are open. We turned the TV on for a little while to check the news see how the situation was progressing.

Really overall, this wasnt that bad IMO. Despite the erieness of a perfectly dark city.

Man, in the past two days i have had about 3 hours without power, so i have been lucky. The sad part is i didnt get to come on and chat on DSM for a bit!

I have had power since 7am yesterday, but the A/C is not on, oh well.

Is all the power on now all around? I think all of burlington is

As long as my power doesn't cut out while i'm spraying my car tomorrow

I think your going to be good nick!!
Power should stay on for good now

Damnit.
I was fine with this blackout thing until it prevented me from getting a clutch master cylander rebuild kit on the spot.

Everyone is playing catch-up.

No Talon until tomorrow.

I don't know what all the fuss was about,, I have blackouts all the time...

Everyone with an ACT Clutch must have enjoyed the gridlock all the way home, the one day I didn't take my Gixxer to work. Ended up 'bonding with my fellow drinkers' as the bars were open all night.

Heheh, I pretty much spent the night doing the same thing...my fingers are also crossed.