News on the Blackout of 2003 - from NBC - part 2 of 5!!

[@carltonking416]

Toronto, Canada (downtown)...the power came back on the next morning at 8:00 AM. It was quite a sight to see thousands and thousands of people dressed in business suits and women in skirts and high heels walking up Yonge Street and climbing on to pickup trucks so they could get a ride home or closer to their final destination. In some areas of the city the power did not come back on until three days later.

[@MethosFilms]

i had solar panels on my rv and portable panels for my apartment. i was good :) brought a bunch in so they can get cold during the day. i had the ac going and everything ;)

[@richiebee1984]

You were so fucking lucky I sweated my black ass off ALL NIGHT LONG TRY TO SLEEP DRIPPING WITH SWEAT NO BREEZE COMING THROUGH THE WINDOWS WHAT SO EVER

[@gregorymalchuk272]

What kind of batteries were you using at the time of the blackout?

[@WalnutSpice]

We lost power for two days in Akron, OH. For some reason my grandma's street at the time seemed to run off its own grid or something, they had power when no one nowhere for probably a hundred miles elsewhere had any.

[@lastlaff2777]

Wow, 2 days in Akron without power. The horror. Akron's a dark black hole with the lights on.

[@TheNecropolis20]

i am a man that lives in Akron..i was 23 years old then.i am 41 years old now I am fearing another black out On May 6, 2021 there was Sabotage a cyber hack attack they went after the colonial pipeline. .i think that the power grid is next to go in the cyber way.

[@altfactor]

Didn't NBC (as well as ABC and CBS) begin nonstop coverage around 4:30 P.M. EDT?? I'd like to see some of that coverage.

[@jet4212006]

i remember a friend and I were playing Time Crisis 2 when we beat the final boss and the scene showed the guy falling down into fire when the screen went to black. We thought it was part of the game then we realized everyone had lost power.

[@andrewlocklin6054]

jet4212006. i was just 5 days away from my 2 nd birthday i was probably sitting in the air conditioned house

[@TheSensfan09]

I live in Ottawa Canada, I remember that night I took a flashlight and did a walk around the block just to check things out and remember thinking this is so weird total darkness except for the odd candles.

[@SuV33358]

I remember it well in Rochester NY 🔥🔥🔥....no air con! 😱😱😱

[@WhovianSentaiRiderFan]

My Father, My Mother, And My Half Sister experienced this blackout. I wasn't even born yet. I was born 10 months after that.

[@richiebee1984]

BE LUCKY YOU DID NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT FUCKING HORRIBLY HOT NIGHT.I WAS 19 WITH MY MOM AND SISTER BACK THEN.

[@Sirphil-dj9dh]

I do not know if this blackout went as far south as Washington DC. I do know I was driving to my Mother's place in NM and at the time my sister in North Carolina was pregnant. I was relieved when I heard my Mom and sister were both safe.

[@lastlaff2777]

Thank you for this useless piece of information.

[@Ronton617]

I know where has the time gone. Hard to believe.

[@taxitalknyc7600]

OH yeah... :)

[@corycooldangerous]

People are being courteously courteous, with no panic, just courteous. As courteous as they can be without panic. Courteous.

[@chriscecere3774]

I remember the black out of 2003

[@janiyahmorgan1992]

chris cecere yeah me too

[@TheNecropolis20]

its true we did all think that it was terrorism But on MAY 6, 2021, IT REALLY WAS TERRORISM..THE colonial pipeline was hacked by cyber hackers the power grid is feared to be next.

[@tharper1961]

A squirrel chewing through a power line in Akron, Ohio caused all this mess. DAMN Squirrel!

[@jamessimms415]

Had a squirrel chew though something important on a local substation near a University campus on Gameday morning. Alabama power earned their money that day to get power up & running for a football game. Suites lost all of their food

[@Airportris]

LOL this video looks like its straight outta the early 90s

[@richiebee1984]

WORD!!!!!!!

[@851995STARGATE]

no that was a rumor it was a cascade power failure meaning some guy ignored an alarm in southern canada, northern new york power plant and a glitch int he computers tripped, overloading a breakers and in the U.S. the grid for new york is connects to the entire northeast area( most of it) and each of the states starting getting power outages. Look it up on wikipedia

[@ka3abneh]

Can believe its the 10 year aniversary

[@ALEXISGNFR]

16 now!

[@destinyezife174]

Well 18 now

[@stevewhitener4903]

Well 21 now lol. I was starting my freshman year at college when this 2003 blackout happened. But I was luckily not affected down here in TN!

[@851995STARGATE]

I looked up what happened exactly, so basically a tree in ohio rubbed against a high voltage power line, this was caused by an electrical fault, the lines were starting to overheat and sag (high voltage on a hot day), This should have tripped an alarm at a nearby power station but a computer glitch caused no alarm to sound, after that several more power lines began to sag and overheat, the electrical grid in the northeast began to become overtaxed and finally shut down, by 4:05 pm.

[@markbaum7379]

Our power came back on at 8:30 the next day

[@richiebee1984]

2 questions for you.what city you were in and 8:30 am or pm my power came back on at 2:15 pm in Brooklyn, ny

[@markbaum7379]

Queens got their Power back at 8:30 AM = I know this because I had my 40+ year old portable am/fm radio tuned to WCBS 880 = It was on all night running on 10 year old Duracell Batteries. I lived in Little Neck - Queens at the time.

[@lastlaff2777]

well good for you

[@richiebee1984]

@@markbaum7379 OK,SO SINCE YOU LIVED RIGHT NEXT TO LONG ISLAND THAT'S MABYE WHY THE POWER CAME BACK ON SO FAST

[@TheArmedcanuck]

lol we were having fun in canada threw parties 2 nights in a row

[@bigmike9128]

how did phones still work with the power out

[@MethosFilms]

big mike cell towers have huge batteries as backup

[@KeshiaFowler]

How was PA not

[@taxitalknyc7600]

02:42 Hmmmm.... Eeeeee-yah.

[@jet4212006]

yeah, I doubt the lord is gonna throw a fit because you were in your girlfriends bedroom watching a movie. if anything it would be a sin if you didn't make a move to your GF in her bedroom.

[@ericjarvie]

An lie....!! this grid overlaps when it and its supply should be independant...but we have an name for this in engineering and for this kind rough shoddy workmanship we call it Candelabra pure Candelabra...you have just got laugh at the lies they tell....!!

[@851995STARGATE]

Yea look up on google images power grid map, a blue one, we aren't connected to the new york and northeast grid we are lucky, and a computer glitch caused those two people to recieve no alarm from those computers, the power system is still pretty antiquated

[@MydogTobes]

I live in sw pa...Nothing happened here. I think we have a seperate power grid. I got to watch this as it happened...After the fact Canada blamed us and we blamed Canada...Then they found out it was us...something about 2 people in Ohio caused all this cause they werent watching their instruments at a power station....

[@Brian211978]

I'm trying to figure out how virtually every city to the east and north of philadelphia were blacked out but not that city!!

[@floydjohnson7888]

Stroke of luck. The people watching the piece of grid for Pennsylvania ("Independent System Operator") saw the cascade approaching and were able to hit the "disconnect" switch just in time. Other jurisdictions' ISOs weren't as lucky.

[@alexcueva1252]

look up for the NORTHEAST BLACKOUT IN 1965

[@851995STARGATE]

not the same grid as new york.

[@jolyonwelsh9834]

If you don't like it generate it yourself you cheapskate.

[@Darrin.Crawford]

Honestly, Americans overly dramatize everything. Totally hilarious.