Major Power Outages all over northeast

[kahljorn]

We had brownouts on sunday of last week, it pissed me off cause I was playing simcity and my city kept getting destroyed by an unstoppable real world disaster. Ironically everytime I played my sims complained of brownouts.

[Jeanette X]

What exactly is a brownout? I know I've heard the term, but the definition escapes me...

[kahljorn]

Couple of different things, it's basically when power goes out momentarily, like 10 second outages. Or when a part of a powergrid goes out. Imagine flicking your tv on and off, that's basically a brownout.

[Perndog]

It's when the power company isn't supplying enough energy (for whatever reason) and the voltage drops in an area; when it drops to nothing, it's a brownout. (As opposed to a blackout, where power is suddenly cut off instead of gradually decreasing.)

[Esuohlim]

Our power just came back on about two hours ago. We didn't have running water for about 20 hours either. I had to READ under CANDLELIGHT.

[glowbelly]

i was skeered that some kinda baddies were gonna break into my house and take my stuff, but they didn't because my boyfriend has a stun gun and my new kitten inky would ATTACK.

driving was surreal, though. i really wish people weren't so damn careless (LIKE LENOR). i almost got hit a couple of times by people who failed to even slow down at busted traffic lights. just so everyone knows next time this happens: when traffic lights are out, the intersection becomes a four way stop. OK? ok.

[FartinMowler]

We had a good time here in Canada.. Candles and conversation.. the next day lined up 20 minutes for beer and passed all the panicked freaks trying to get gas (where the fuck are they going?) Had a bbq got drunk and enjoyed the piece and quite. Kinda missed the internet :/