No Power

[Frodo]

argh, my power just came back on last night, i live in michigan. stupid grid. i should kick it ;).

[Gobalopper]

Before

After

"It's a good thing all the green lights marking the state borders stayed on, or there could have been real trouble." :)

[nemafakei]

Hehe. You see, if you annoy us, all we do is filch the boron rods, and release the right valves to pour away the coolant, and there goes most of N. America. And now we have the US in our pocket with a bit of blackmail... well, it makes the Dutch look like amateurs.

[Navaros]

much to the disappointment of all those who hate me, Nav has survived the blackout!!!

i *just* got power back at 6PM my time on Saturday night! arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! i really wanna choke some people to death (mostly incompetent hydro workers and politicians)

incidentally i have decided to construct 5 windtraps in my backyard so this never happens to your dear friend Nav again :)

[gryphon]

Ah, but the plants are owned by a British-based company, as I recall.

World domination one step further .. ..

The Brits own my local nuke plant.

That has got to be scary... . :-

[lowzeewee]

Do you think it is really a work of terrorist?Personally I do not think so.They are just finding a final solution to sum up Operation Iranian Liberating...oops....since it spells OIL which describes their objective,it will be changed to Operation Iranian Freedom...Damn!Shouldn't have told you guys! :O

[Dante]

It would be funny except that Britannia is having a few power problems of her own, due to the heat wave among other things. Fortunately, soon we plan to build more wind farms! :)

[gryphon]

The below is from a well known newsgroup .. they are having a discussion about it at the time. :)

The article is in german, but I'm trying to translate the important pieces

to english:

The failing niagara power-plant belongs to National Grid USA. That

power-supplier is listed as a reference customer of Northern Dynamics.

Norhtern Dynamics labeled themselves as "Home of the OPC Experts" and

offer a range of products that use OPC for control and operation systems.

OPC stands for "Ole for process control" and is based on microsofts

COM/DCOM model. In a network affected by the W32.Blaster worm the

DCOM-communcation fails, and therefor OPC fails on unpatched systems.

OPC is employed among other things for the linking of so called SCADA

systems (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), as used by

power-plants.

The OPC experts from northern dynamics also list General Electrics,

Siemens AG, european power-plant constructor ABB and the european

organization for nuclear research as reference customers.

[Edric O]

Low Power - build more Windtraps ;D

You know, I wish Washington was without power... but I'm not talking about electrical power. ;)