Power outages across Eastern seaboard...

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lolol..... ya never know...tis an awful small world out there....

anyway.... Thisis what Fox is saying:

http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94772,00.html

WASHINGTON — The power has gone out in several major cities in the northern United States and Canada, stalling daily operations and disabling afternoon rush hour commuters.

New York City, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto and Ottawa are among the major cities affected.

Toledo, Akron and Canton, Ohio; Batavia and Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Erie, Pa.; towns in western Connecticut and in Canada also lost all electricity shortly after 4 p.m. EDT.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission spokesman Bryan Lee said that a shutdown somewhere along the line had caused a chain reaction up through Canada and back down to the Midwest cities in Ohio and Michigan. A New York state energy official said an overload at the Niagara-Mohawk energy plant caused a cascading effect.

Workers with New York's energy service Consolidated Edison reported black smoke rising from a transformer in the 14th Street facility in the Lower East side of Manhattan along the FDR Drive.

However, Bloomberg reported that Con Ed officials assured him that the boilers at the 14th street facility created the smoke. He said when the boilers are shut down, as they automatically are when no juice is being fed to them, they create black smoke.

NAERC Press Secretary Ellen Dancoe said the affected power grid revolves around Lake Erie and affects areas as far northwest as Saskatchewan, as far southwest as Oklahoma and as far south as Florida.