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Major power failure across Northeast
Thousands of New Yorkers flooded streets where traffic signals were not working.
Aug. 14 — NBC's Brian Williams reports on the blackout which cut power across the Northeast Thursday.
BREAKING NEWS
By Alex Johnson
MSNBC
Aug. 14 — An enormous power blackout cascaded throughout the Northeast, the Midwest and eastern Canada late Thursday afternoon, knocking out electricity to millions of people in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Detroit, Cleveland and elsewhere.
‘It’s like 9/11 again. I hope this is nothing big.’
— JIM TSUMI
New York motorist OFFICIALS OF THE Homeland Security Department said there were no indications that terrorists were responsible for the blackout.
Mayor New York Michael Bloomberg said the blackout was related to a malfunction at Canada’s Niagara Mohawk power grid, which cascaded across the enormous interconnected power grid across eastern North America. He said that the cause of the malfunction was not yet known but that it was “probably a natural occurrence.”
The evening rush hour was just beginning in the East when the power went out at 4:14 p.m., and NBC correspondents described scenes of pandemonium as thousands of New Yorkers streamed into streets where traffic signals were not operating.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it was crippled, and all three major New York area airports were closed. Buses, trains and subways were not running.
Jim Tsumi of Riverdale, N.Y., was sitting on the shoulder of Highway 495 leading to the Lincoln Tunnel.
“I got no hope getting home tonight,” he said, pointing across the river at Manhattan, where the West Side Highway and a two-mile traffic jam were clearly visible. “It’s like 9/11 again. I hope this is nothing big.”
The blackout stretched over huge areas of the Northeast, the Midwest and Canada.
Every prison in New York state reported a loss of power and was operating on backup generators, NBC affiliate WGRC-TV of Buffalo reported. WNBC-TV reported that fire crews were heading down into the subways to check on thousands of stranded passengers.
In Detroit and southeast Michigan, where about 2.1 million customers were without power, inoperative street lights snarled late-afternoon traffic, NBC affiliate WDIV-TV reported. Some areas also reported shortages of water.
Cleveland power officials said 700,000 customers were affected. NBC affiliate WKYC-TV reported that telephone systems were also out.
Industry, government and transportation ground to a complete halt in Toronto, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Other affected cities included Buffalo, Albany and Syracuse, N.Y.; Hartford, Conn.; Lansing and many other smaller cities in Michigan; Akron and Toledo, Ohio; and Ottawa and Montreal in Ontario.
Washington and the federal government were not affected Neither were much of New England — including all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, southern Vermont and eastern Connecticut — and other areas of Canada, including Quebec City.
The Federal Aviation Administration shut down Newark, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia in the New York area; Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Hopkins Airport in Cleveland. The FAA said that otherwise, however, most of its facilities were operating normally on backup power and that planes in the air were in no danger.
Canadian officials, meanwhile, closed Ottawa International Airport and Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
Major power failure across Northeast
Thousands of New Yorkers flooded streets where traffic signals were not working.
Aug. 14 — NBC's Brian Williams reports on the blackout which cut power across the Northeast Thursday.
BREAKING NEWS
By Alex Johnson
MSNBC
Aug. 14 — An enormous power blackout cascaded throughout the Northeast, the Midwest and eastern Canada late Thursday afternoon, knocking out electricity to millions of people in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Detroit, Cleveland and elsewhere.
‘It’s like 9/11 again. I hope this is nothing big.’
— JIM TSUMI
New York motorist OFFICIALS OF THE Homeland Security Department said there were no indications that terrorists were responsible for the blackout.
Mayor New York Michael Bloomberg said the blackout was related to a malfunction at Canada’s Niagara Mohawk power grid, which cascaded across the enormous interconnected power grid across eastern North America. He said that the cause of the malfunction was not yet known but that it was “probably a natural occurrence.”
The evening rush hour was just beginning in the East when the power went out at 4:14 p.m., and NBC correspondents described scenes of pandemonium as thousands of New Yorkers streamed into streets where traffic signals were not operating.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it was crippled, and all three major New York area airports were closed. Buses, trains and subways were not running.
Jim Tsumi of Riverdale, N.Y., was sitting on the shoulder of Highway 495 leading to the Lincoln Tunnel.
“I got no hope getting home tonight,” he said, pointing across the river at Manhattan, where the West Side Highway and a two-mile traffic jam were clearly visible. “It’s like 9/11 again. I hope this is nothing big.”
The blackout stretched over huge areas of the Northeast, the Midwest and Canada.
Every prison in New York state reported a loss of power and was operating on backup generators, NBC affiliate WGRC-TV of Buffalo reported. WNBC-TV reported that fire crews were heading down into the subways to check on thousands of stranded passengers.
In Detroit and southeast Michigan, where about 2.1 million customers were without power, inoperative street lights snarled late-afternoon traffic, NBC affiliate WDIV-TV reported. Some areas also reported shortages of water.
Cleveland power officials said 700,000 customers were affected. NBC affiliate WKYC-TV reported that telephone systems were also out.
Industry, government and transportation ground to a complete halt in Toronto, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Other affected cities included Buffalo, Albany and Syracuse, N.Y.; Hartford, Conn.; Lansing and many other smaller cities in Michigan; Akron and Toledo, Ohio; and Ottawa and Montreal in Ontario.
Washington and the federal government were not affected Neither were much of New England — including all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, southern Vermont and eastern Connecticut — and other areas of Canada, including Quebec City.
The Federal Aviation Administration shut down Newark, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia in the New York area; Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Hopkins Airport in Cleveland. The FAA said that otherwise, however, most of its facilities were operating normally on backup power and that planes in the air were in no danger.
Canadian officials, meanwhile, closed Ottawa International Airport and Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
hahahah Vampy that is a VERY hilarious thought shit -- u mustve felt ridiculous after u figured out the power went out qq hahaha 
You cause NE electricity outage!! Millions of people will look for your ass since you opened the forbidden chest!! 
