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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 03:51 PM Original message |
Florida DUers what's the real story with |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. Dude. If they have no electricity, chances are they aren't online. |
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SoFlaJet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 03:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. you never heard of laptops |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 03:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I was just joking. |
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idovoodoo (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Not every piece of the internet is on battery backup, though |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. yeah, but routers aren't battery operated. (east Orlando has power, btw) |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. But internet connections |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 01:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
34. LOL |
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SoFlaJet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. all I know is I can't use my A/C right now |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. This might be a good time |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. Nuke plant shutdown cuts power in Fla. |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. They found a hole drilled into a pipe |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. that's from 2006 |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Whoops |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 07:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
27. hope that didn't sound nanny-ie. i remember when that happened, b/c it seemed |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 01:07 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. No, I thank you |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
8. 3 million customers without power.chemical failure at Turkey point |
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cloudbase (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
9. The Heat will do anything |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
13. Palm Beach County, here! |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 05:40 PM Response to Reply #13 |
26. I'm in West Palm, subways still runn.....oops sorry..forgot where I was...n/t |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. Same as with the massive blackout of 2003-lack of regulation and oversight |
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Synnical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
15. Significant Equipment Failure, not routine |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. More detail from the Times/AP story. |
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Synnical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I think that's from 2006 n/t |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:30 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. "We don't know what happened, |
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demo dutch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
20. We were out for 3 1/2 hours in Miami- Power outages were caused by nuke plant shutdown |
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better tomorrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. sounds like out of the playbook of Derek Peterson |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
22. Power just came back on here in Ft. Myers an hour ago. |
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better tomorrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
23. 2003 reminded me of the satire poem |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
24. Son of Enron is trading energy again. nt |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
28. Ala. will do anything to stop that 60 min. program... :) |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
29. Florida is an "Island" electrically |
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sce56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 01:57 AM Response to Reply #29 |
36. I don't mean to be rude but that is not posible. |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
30. I am surprised it doesn't happen more often. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-26-08 08:46 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Thanks all n/t |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
33. Land of the Free, Home of Crumbling Infrastructure |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 08:06 AM Response to Reply #33 |
40. Ding, ding |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
35. Smart ass squirrel? n/t |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 02:00 AM Response to Original message |
37. The rw christian where I work |
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bedazzled (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
38. they don't know what caused it, but they're sure it wasn't terrorism |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 07:54 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. "don't know" what caused a malfunction in a nuclear power plant |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-27-08 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
41. From what I heard this morning on the news |
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