My favorite part was when the government-I can't remember whose, but I thought it was Canada-said that it was the result of a lightning strike.

Then the local meteorologist showed the lightning "radar" and there wasn't a single lightning strike anywhere in the northeast between 11am and 11pm...lol

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Couldn't find their arse with two hands and a map!!











I'M SOOOOOOOO JUST KIDDING!!!!
If I could move to Canada right now, I would with no regrets!

I was on my way to work in Burlington, Ontario at the time the power went out and there was a huge plume of black smoke in the east (towards Oakville and Toronto). I thought for sure that was the cause but it turned out to be a petroleum refinery doing a "burn-off".

I was sent home from work almost immediately after I got there. When I got to my apartment building there was someone trapped in the elevator... luckily the fire department got her out less than two hours after she was trapped.

I watched the parade for the "Cactus Festival" that is being held this weekend and then spent the rest of the evening listening to the radio. I went to bed at midnight but couldn't sleep because of the heat.

The power came back on at 2am (slightly less than 10 hours after it went out) and so far it has stayed on, so we were luckier than some places. We will probably have blackouts all weekend and they're asking us to conserve electricity and water... the McMaster University hospital is running really low on water.

I live 15 min north from the Toronto Border.  I personnally got my power back at 400am, my friend a couple of kilometers away got his back at 12, but the people across the street from him don't have anything.
I work at a grocery store and we were one of the only open today.  It was hell, I barely even got a brake and worked 2/12 hours overtime, but at least I raked in th money.

Last night was cool though, you never see the starts in the city unless you drive at least an hour north.  My friend was telling me that he rode his bike with some of the guys in the pitch dark over to the observatory and they had some astrologer nerd teach them about the stars.  They also saw 4 shooting stars.

At my house, we had nothing better to do so we got drunk, brought out the guitars and piano and starting singing until we passed out.  (first time having German beer, very good, not like that American crap that tastes like water)

Milton's power has been up and running smoothly since it came on. It's like a sauna out here though. Last time I checked it was 39C with the humidity or 102F for you folk on the old system. Now they're saying that an American hydro company has overloaded the lines in the "Lake Eire Loop". The loop runs clockwise but they think a large feed back pulse of energy came through in the oposite direction. Basically it was a gigantic shot circut.

It's quite funny out here though. People are so stupid. There are huge lines at the gas pumps even though most aren't working and the ones that do were to be reserved for emergency use only. Flights are still cancelled at CYYZ.

It was a disaster waiting to happen. What caused it? Too much load on an inadequate power source using antiquated equipment which did not work because of operators who did not know what they were doing. In reality, it's pathetic that this could happen to one of the most, if not the most, technically advanced country in the world. Helo?

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