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Queen of Nargothrond
Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Akron, Ohio - USA
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Yep, that's right. It all started in Ohio. I'm moving.
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium)
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Trying to cover your tracks, eh?
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Queen of Nargothrond
Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001
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"Whither go you?" she said. "North away." he said: "to the swords, and the siege, and the walls of defence - that yet for a while in Beleriand rivers may run clean, leaves spring, and birds build their nests, ere Night comes." AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide |
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Merry old England
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I, a Brit, was in NYC at the time of the blackout. I was in the Financial District, near Wall Street and Battery Park when everyone started pouring onto the streets- many thought it wa s a bomb scare or some such.
People just surged along the street and I couldn't get a taxi back to my hotel in the Upper West Side so I had to walk 50 blocks! ![]()
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An enigma in a conundrum
Join Date: Oct 1999
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People just surged along the street and I couldn't get a taxi back to my hotel in the Upper West Side so I had to walk 50 blocks!
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Lord of the Pants
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Looks like Italy just suffered a pretty massive power outage as well. What gives?
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I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Plainsboro, NJ
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden
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Don't you mean "A major power outrage "
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: In me taters
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You might be forgiven for thinking that a developed country ought to be able to guarantee power supplies, but the problem is that the power generation business is in crisis. They've been forced to mothball power stations because they're not needed most of the time and just appear as redundant expenses on the balance sheet. This means that there's no spare capacity and it just takes a minor problem to cripple the whole system.
I've a mate who works in this business and he says that the UK can expect similar power cuts within the next 18 months. This is what you get if you let accountants run the world. |
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Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Reality
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Same problem with prisons, and garbage dumps, and halfway houses for troubled people. (IMO) If the press would back out of politics and quit treating the political process like some celebrity popularity contest, maybe politicians would make decsions with the people's/country's best interests in mind. (not just re-election)
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: In me taters
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Couldn't agree more. As the Gaffer's Gaffer used to say "if nuclear power is so safe, why don't they store the waste under the Houses of Parliament?" to which the answer was unclear...
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: In the inner depths of my lair.
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hehe thats funny.
i missed the entire power outage on the east coast. was in wyoming with the mooses and the yellow bellied marmots.
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