UK Power Cut

On the radio here right now, on the AP wire:

Entire south side of London blacked out, Kent, and much of South East England has now power....

I can almost remember the time when i hosted topic: "US Power Cut..".

news.bbc.co.uk...

[Edited on 28-8-2003 by MrEisenhower]

But seriously.. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!..



Sorry, cant help it.. i find this funny.. btw "tube" -> "metro"?

well i live in canterbury,which is in Kent, and i have power, but its spreading like wild fire

Originally posted by FULCRUM
I can almost remember the time when i hosted topic: "US Power Cut..".

and what happened? no NWO take over. no aliens came and took us over.

no martial law was declared (someone depredicted this, i bet they feel foolish now)

no terrorists (a few said this)

sometimes sh!t happens!

but if you all want to keep being paranoid fine by me. i prefer top wait and find out what REALLY happened and what caused it than jump to conclusions and assume/hope it's this or the toher thing when it could be a simple SNAFU.

Falcrum the tube is are underground trains!!!
metopolitan lines

"Sorry, cant help it.. i find this funny.. btw "tube" -> "metro"? "

The Tube is the London Underground, kinda Metro like. It runs off its own generators in sectors due to how its arranged with power being picked up off a third rail.

EDIT- Asala got there first

[Edited on 28-8-2003 by MrEisenhower]

To be fair, the AP newswire is not the most accurate in the world either...

So, we have a US power outtage now a London Power outtage. Hmmmmm..... Anyone wanna start a pool on who the next power outtage will come too?????

Sorry, couldn't help it. Seems to be contagious.

Ummm hearing reports of possible lightning strike!!!!
Heard that somewere before!!

paris,france in 2 weeks times then Berlin,Germany

Yeah, But ThePrankMonkey.. arent we supposed to be a bit paranoid? After all we are the ATS..

Inf, yeah.. i know where Kent is.. i suppose.. it is a channel port city/town.. or is it?

Damn, only half a million lightening bolts worldwide every month, and in the past 50 years, it manages to take out entire sections of large countries 2x in 2 weeks...

As I said, there are not coincidences...

The National Grid has surge protection, areas can be shut off at will, so it shouldn't spread too far. I don't think it will get any worse than what it is.

Let me guess, the lightening hit in Niagra Falls again. Damn, this CLEAR SKY weather sure seems to be creating lightening strike from nowhere that cause black outs lately.

well i still have power and im in a so called "effected area" lets hope i don't get cut off *touch wood*

Good question, what is the weather over there right now??? Any thunderstorms?

its been raining here,but not enough to screw with the power and theres no thunderstorms being reported

This is the UK its always raining lol...