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Blackout: The next morning

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Blackout: The next morning
: A current wire story on the blackout here. A story about newspapers struggling to get out here.

Here‘s the GoogleNews page on the blackout.

The CNN wrapup.

: The update for readers of Advance Internet services: If power is restored to our location in Jersey City this morning, we will be able to start bringing back services after 7 a.m. Home pages will, at first, be outdated (that is, whatever was sitting there when the blackout hit) but editors will be updating them as quickly as possible. Newspaper feeds will be delayed but they, too, will go up as soon as possible. Thanks for your understanding.

: 7 a.m.: The latest for Advance Internet (since I see this morning that there’s a link on our blackout page to this weblog): Power is being restored now to our HQ in Jersey City. When it is back up and the servers are brought back, within an hour, then we will point traffic back to the main pages for the services (which will be out of date for a short time) and editors will then be able to update their services and get feeds of newspaper content resent.

: Here’s an image of the U.S. power grid and its spider veins, via Instapundit.

: Meanwhile, in Canada.

: Today’s story is the blame game. Bush, Pataki, Clinton, Chretien… they’ve all started apportioning blame and pointing fingers about this fragile system.

More on the U.S./Canadian cross-border finger-pointing here.

: Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday afternoon that everything would be back to normal in New York City this morning. I said then that he’d regret those words.

He’s now saying that everything will be normal in New York City tomorrow morning.

: Blackouts through history.

: NJ outages: The Star-Ledger has a map this morning finally showing where power was lost in New Jersey. The heaviest outages were all clustered in Hudson, Union, and Essex counties. This morning, PSE&G had all but 15,000 customers back online by 7 a.m.

4 responses to “Blackout: The next morning”

  1. Will Avatar
    Will

    Now that power is mostly back on in Cleveland, Ohio, the news is all about water. We’re on a boil alert till noon on Saturday. But, the mayor said the pools and public parks will be open at noon today. Will they boil the pool water?

  2. Combustible Boy Avatar
    Combustible Boy

    Check it out, Jeff — the stripped-down version of the Cleveland Plain Dealer site currently operating has links to Buzz Machine and the Command Post as well as one other blog in the ‘Weblogs’ bar on the left.

  3. Combustible Boy Avatar
    Combustible Boy

    Oops, sorry, didn’t realize at first that that was your company.

  4. KMK Avatar
    KMK

    I’m an alarmist……..and I’ve been the butt of many jokes since Christmas. I took hat boxes and spray painted them with glow in the dark paint. In them I put lanterns that run on batteries, huge flashlights, walkman radio’s, old phones that require no power to work, heavy duty hospital supply face masks, MRE’s from the army navy supply on Canal Street, juice boxes, and a large supply of replacement batteries. They all got a keyring laser light. I taped my phone number to the phones and laminated a card for everyone’s wallet with my number on it. My friend in Soho, who is an artist, displays my box in an Andy Warhol kind of way with his art. I’d like to say I had the last laugh last night but I am just relieved. My friends and family, when they made it home, had light and a radio telling them it wasn’t a terrorist attack. They were able to tell their neighbors what was going on. I spent the night as a check in point reuniting people with their significant others and parents with children. It didn’t take more them $40 bucks per box and a little planning to be prepared. If you could have heard the frantic tone in my friends voice when at 11:30 he still had not heard from his girlfriend and the relief when I told him she had called and was planning to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge to get home (she works midtown) and the fact that she had stopped off with a few friends to partake in the free beer pubs were offering, you’d make a box. The only one who talked to all the kids about a plan was me, the alarmist. I’m happy to know I have no Mia’s, just a few people sleeping off the free beer, and a big Cheshire cat smile on my face.