Satellite Views Of The Blackout

An anonymous reader writes "These Before and After satellite views of the blackout, from the NOAA, show the geographic extent and intensity of the outage. Toronto, Ottawa, and Detroit seem the worst hit. Currently, a cnn article mentions that a reverse of power flow around Lake Erie may have caused an overload that triggered the programmed shutdown of the power grid. Would be interesting to know how the system and software works, but then again, that information could be dangerous in the wrong hands."

Comments

the eric conspiracy

[the eric conspiracy]

Whatever happened to UFO theories? Are we SURE that space aliens didn't cause this? Didn't the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" predict this nearly exactly?

Well, at least some lights stayed on

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Hey

[Timesprout]

I cant see my house from here !

Foolish Earthlings!

[FrostedWheat]

*viewing from space*

Kodos: Foolish Earthlings! Relying on such a primitive thing as electricity!
Kang & Kodos: HA HA HA HA ... !

*the ships lights go out*

Kodos: You forgot to feed the hamster again didn't you?

That's Right!

[XplosiveX]

New York's governer blamed Canada for the cause of the outage but our Mayor Mel Lastman answered back with, "How many time have you seen the American's take the blame for anything?"

Re:That's Right!

[thatguywhoiam]

Fucking canadians... first they fucking contaminated our meat supply due to their incompetance of dealing with mad cow disease. Then THEIR stupid power system overloads OURS and they blame US for it....We should just turn canada into a nice sheet of glass and be done with it, that would also elminate the terrorists they protect too.

Well as a person with dual citizenship, living in Canada, I feel compelled to give two answers to this.

AmericanGuyWhoIAm:
Dude that single cow came from the US, and it was your fuckin' transformer, so take that back before I ventilate your face. Commie.

CanadianGuyWhoIAm:
Uh huh. Hey buddy I hear you, eh? Take a hit off this, you'll feel better. You from Texas?

Re:Dangerous in the wrong hands?

[RobotRunAmok]

Some people on bugtraq are already speculating that the blaster worm may have had something to do with it...

Dude, people everywhere are speculating that their own personal boogeyman is responsible. Here in New York, Mets fans are blaming Yankee fans, Brooklyn is blaming Manhattan, and everyone is kinda suspicious of Jersey...

Too bad X-Files has been cancelled, eh?

Re:Ridiculous

[Lemmy Caution]

Because there's nothing to do in Dayton after 6 pm?

Re:Dangerous in the wrong hands?

[thatguywhoiam]

Dude, people everywhere are speculating that their own personal boogeyman is responsible. Here in New York, Mets fans are blaming Yankee fans, Brooklyn is blaming Manhattan, and everyone is kinda suspicious of Jersey...

... and the US has Canada. :)

"Those damn topless legally-married lesbian pot-smoking hippies! Shut 'em down!!!!

(a proud Canuck)

Re:Dangerous in the wrong hands?

[Blkdeath]

Nor does that map show the "Lake Erie Loop" which is supposedly where the problem started.

I also notice a little place called "Canada" missing from the map.