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US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline
bofus writes "The U.S./Canada Power Outage Task Force issued the Aug. 14, 2003 Sequence of Events at noon today. While no conclusions are drawn at this point, it does paint a pretty good picture of what happened and when it happened."
A taskforce to survive power outages.... Lets show the world that we are stronger than ice-cream.
n/t
Ah, so the Canadians weren't responsible for the blackout... as the nice mayor of New York originally contended.
Think he must have watched a bit too much South Park!
There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. -- J. H. Goldfuss
... 5pm EST, Sept 12, 2003, the website goes down for some reason...
FLR
You left out:
Friday September 12, @03:58PM: Server goes down due to unusually high traffic.
if(!cool) exit(-1);
5:08 PM - U.S./Canada Power Outage Task Force web server goes out.
The coolest voice ever.
"12:05:44 - 1:31:34 PM - Four Generator trips
2:02:00 - 2:02:00 PM - Transmission line disconnects in southwestern Ohio
3:05:41 - 3:41:33 PM - Transmission lines disconnect between eastern Ohio and northern Ohio
3:45:33 - 4:08:58 PM - Remaining transmission lines disconnect from eastern into northern Ohio
4:08:58 - 4:10:27 PM - Transmission lines into northwestern Ohio disconnect, and generation trips in central Michigan
4:10:00 - 4:10:38 PM - Transmission lines disconnect across Michigan and northern Ohio, generation trips off line in northern Michigan and northern Ohio, and northern Ohio separates from Pennsylvania
4:10:40 - 4:10:44 PM - Four transmission lines disconnect between Pennsylvania and New York
4:10:41 - 4:10:41 PM - Transmission line disconnects and generation trips in northern Ohio
4:10:42 - 4:10:45 PM - Transmission paths disconnect in northern Ontario and New Jersey, isolating the northeast portion of the Eastern Interconnection
4:10:46 - 4:10:55 PM - New York splits east-to-west. New England (except Southwestern Connecticut) and the Maritimes separate from New York and remain intact.
4:10:50 - 4:11:57 PM - Ontario separates from New York west of Niagara Falls and west of St. Lawrence. Southwestern Connecticut separates from New York and blacks out."
4:12:30 PM - ??? - Millions of random people from the northeast US yelling "OH SHIT!!!"
here is the solution:
Build more power plants!!!!
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
12.04 - power on
14.11 - power off
Comment: Yes I realise the username 'fuckfuck101' makes me sound intelligent, no you cannot buy it from me.
"We're can't say for certain what happened and when, but we can say with almost 90% certainty that when the power went out, people went without power. We think it might be related to some electrical do-hickey thingy that someone was supposed to be watching carefully in case it broke, but we're not confident enough to make that bold a statement... nor to claim that anything actually 'broke'.
"But what we *can* say is that we feel strongly that we feel something different should have happened. An appropriate amount of blame will be laid... oh yes... and we'll make the bad people pay."
Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
"it does paint a pretty good picture of what happened and when it happened."
4:10:50 - 4:11:57 PM
Technician 1: "Hey I wonder what this big red button does?" {Click}
Technician 2: "NOOOOOO!!!!"
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
Shame on Canada!
The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before someone thinks of blaming us!
Matt and Trey -- America's Imported Wisdom
12:05:44 - 1:31:34 PM - energy.gov publishes timeline
2:02:00 - 4:50 PM - Business as usual. Interested parties are viewing the published timeline.
04:58:00PM - Existence of timeline is revealed to slashdot.org
05:00:03PM - energy.gov? what's that?
I wonder if it's bad when we slashdot effect gov't sites...
---- Move SIG...For great justice!
12:05:44 - 1:31:34 PM - script kiddiot downloads SoBig source code and opens up a jolt
2:02:00 - 2:02:00 PM - sciprt kiddiot gets frustrated cuz he cant gcc -o sobig sobig.c "Fuck how do I do this shit" drinks more jolt
3:05:41 - 3:41:33 PM -sends message to securityfocus.com `echo "3y3 j4m th3 k1ng 0f th3 w0rld"|mail -s help security-basics@securityfocus.com
3:45:33 - 4:08:58 PM - script kiddiot finds out he can't gcc a damn virus so he jumps on his leet Windows98 machine
4:08:58 - 4:10:27 PM - virus makes its way through insecure machines on the internet
4:10:00 - 4:10:38 PM - script kiddiot jerks off to jenna jameson while looking at news on television
4:10:40 - 4:10:44 PM - power goes *boom*
4:10:41 - 4:10:41 PM - script kiddiot wonders why he can no longer watch porn
4:10:42 - 4:10:45 PM - script kiddiot jumps off the bed gets dressed because mom is knocking on the door
4:10:46 - 4:10:55 PM - mom "I wonder what happened to the power"
4:10:50 - 4:11:57 PM - drinks another jolt
MoFscker
Oh yeah, these guys run a nUUclear powerplant that um.. is like a college landlord of mine. Cheap and dirty as possible.
what exactly causes frequency deviation? I'm not terribly familiar with it
Glad you asked.
It's a highly technical term that refers to the frequency of the AC sine wave of electric power that is delivered over your lines.
This frequency is related to the 60 Hz rate of revolution maintained by most generators.
Occassionally, something will happen to upset this steady rate of revolution of the generators.
In particular, Homer, a donut that falls into the space between the stator and armature will cause this problem.
Lubrication from jelly-filling in the donut can help stave off the inevitable disaster of frequency deviation, but it is simply an old-wive's tale to believe that pouring coffee into the space will ungunk the works in time.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
It's not just us. The English used to have a saying: "Poor Canada: so far from God, so close to the United States."
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
9/12/2003 5:10:05 PM EST all the posts about the server getting /.ed except the first one are modded redundant.
East coast switches to linux powered servers
All east coast power generating stations, from nuclear reactors to hydroelectric dams, have suddenly decided to switch to Linux. When asked for the reason behind this decision, the response was:
"Well, erm, it was because of bl*cough* erm, I mean just a financial decision from the boys upstairs, I don't know anything about it"
The USA topic/icon. Canada's a protectorate allowed to play at having its own foreign and defense policies, not a soverign country of its own.
The tragedy of Canada is that they had the opportunity to have British culture, French cuisine, and American technology. Instead they ended up with American culture, British cuisine, and French technology.
It took this long to get an official timeline? Hmm. Makes me think that maybe there's some of this going on.
A USA flag preceded by a "!" symbol.
;-)
As in "NOT USA"
Sometimes our elected officials act like school children. "I'm telling MOMMYYYYY"!!! I'm glad they aren't representative of those of us here on slash. . . oh . . .wait.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
i wonder what would happen if you called Time in New York right after the power came back on... "At the tone, Eastern standard time will be, 12:00 Exactly... BEEP "At the tone, Eastern standard time will be, 12:00 Exactly... BEEP "At the tone, Eastern standard time will be, 12:00 Exactly... BEEP" Click
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"It's a highly technical term that refers to the frequency of the AC sine wave of electric power that is delivered over your lines."
Wait a minute, could that be the problem? I hear in Canada they use cosine waves. ;-)
-Chris
--an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--