Again I think I should post this...

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I think those are emergency lights.

I live up state in New York...I just got power back.  Anyone know why it happened?  I heard it was a fire in a power plant.  It sucks, I was going to go to a picnic with my family and some other people that own businesses around here.  That may not sound like fun but, it was going to be at a Aerodrome.  I would have been able to see a lot a pretty old fighters.   

I'm in Albany and we had no power.  Just one of fifty million people, so I hear.

Turns out there was no fire at the ConEd Power plant.  Just normal smoke from their shut down.

I'm in Toronto, (south Canada) its midnight and the power is still out. You can see the stars and satellites moving. The moon makes it brighter and ruins it a bit.

P.S I'm using a laptop, I'm lucky that I have a charged battery.

Good to see the power returning.

That'z just bad luck.  ???

Kitchener Ontario out at 4:15 p.m back on at 3:00 a.m.
Checked some tv news networks this morning and all the 'experts' and 'analysts' have been dragged out from under their rocks ro resolve the problem.
Where are they when we need them.
Canada blames US and vice versa however kudos to the emergency personnel who didn't give a damn who or what caused it but were prepared to deal with it and did so accordingly.
My biggest surprise was that the mayor of Toronto didn't call in the army.
Certainly gave families time to do quality time with one another. Haven't seen my better 1/2 for that long in the past month.
Listened to the WB&C calling into the radio stations with dumb ass questions and basically concerned with their own problems. Couldn't watch Fear Factor,or the other so called virtual reality shows and were rapidly running out of their favorite prescription drugs that keep them in touch with the real world.
I am sure most of us are surviving and have overcome FS,computer and tv withdrawl and are back to normal.
Have a great day!!!!
PS  WB&C = whiners,bitchers and complainers - those people out there who wouldn't be happy if they were hung with a new rope.

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  LOL, That was the first thing that crossed my mind too when I saw the Canadian news on NWI reporting the whole thing started in New York, and all the U.S. news stations saying it started in Canada.
  I guess I should consider myself lucky, I live on the west side of Michigan.

  I sure feel for all you guys who were effected, I hate it when we lose power for even a couple of hours.
  It's nice to see most of the news is of people helping each other, I really haven't seen any stories of people taking advantage of this for negative purposes.
  Things could have been much worse.

it was Canada

I beleive it was us, well Ontario Hydro actually. Read my theory in the Cafe.

Got power about 11:30 this morning and just got the cable TV back 30 minutes ago. It was erie outside last night. Clear and hot and no AC. I should have slept in the basement where it's cool. I feel sorry for people stuck on lifts and on subway trains. Could you imagine being stuck in a cramped dark box in the sweltering heat with a bunch of strangers. Don't know how much longer I can stay here as they're threatning rotating blackouts until well into the weekend. I'm in the GTA so I expect that most of these will occure outside the Toronto area.

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I heard Hamilton and parts of Burlington had power. I got stuck in the dark only a few kilometers from the Burlington town line.
Today George W Bush and Ontario Premire Eves have stated that the problem likely occured in the US after a failure in the power grid in Niagera Falls or perhaps Ohio. Power is being slowly restored and should be at about 2/3 normal by now. We are told not to use the airconditioning tonight and into the weekend because it causes a huge strain on the system and cause further damage. Of course there is my stupid neighbour cranked up the air as soon as it came back on. It's been droning ever since.

Yeah, I could see the glow of lights in the direction of Burlington (I'm in Dundas, to the west) at around 11:30-12am. Hamilton had power up on the mountain a little later but I think the downtown core was without power until 3 or 4am.

Burlington's power has been off and on today so I was told not to go in to work... two days pay gone. Oh well, it could be worse.

The thing that bothered me was the lack of skill a lot of drivers have... they didn't seem to understand that when an intersection doesn't have power it should be treated like a four way stop. 

I thought the blackout was kind of fun in a way, although I'm glad it isn't going to last much longer. It's fun until all of the food spoils. 

It was kind of cool to share an experience with people that are hundreds of miles away.