For those of you who may be wondering where your WDF buddies are...

[TheGAME1264]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/15/pow...age/index.html

I'm sure most people in North America are aware of it by now, but for those of you who may be outside of it, I post this info FYI.

[justlivyalife]

Looks pretty bad don't it man - just read it in the evening paper:alien:

[filburt1]

Apparently lightning hit a power plant somewhere in northern New York (state).

[JR]

I saw something about that briefly on the news last night. Did power go out for you, Game?

[Brak]

All I know is that they keep blaming the canadians here... saying it was somehow their fault NY lost 80% of it's power... lol

[JR]

Yes, I am just watching it on the news now. They say the Americans are blaming the Canadians and vice-versa.

[buntine]

there is something like 400 trains stuck in the subways. lol.
they reckon it will take another week b4 things are back to normal

[smoseley]

Here's a little fake article I wrote to scare my coworkers:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/15/power.outages/general-motors.htm

Our company created the GM software that I'm writing about there... I freaked out a few people with it today :-P

[filburt1]

Funny...when you actually go to http://www.cnn.com/6/2003/US/08/15/power.outages/general-motors.htm, you don't see that

[Brak]

The whole system blue up at lunch-time, when everyone was clocking in from their lunch breaks.

It blue up? Nuclear explosion? Also I like the transio favicon at the top