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	2003 North America blackout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2003 North America flout was a massive power outage which occurred throughout parts of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003.
		Those who relied on the Internet were similarly disconnected from their news source for the duration of the flout, with the exception of dialup access from laptop computers, which was widely reported to work until the battery would run out of charge.
		The show was rescheduled for later in the month; many Stooges fans quipped that the flout had been caused when guitarist Ron Asheton was playing his guitar during soundcheck, a joke immortalized in the liner notes of a DVD of the rescheduled concert.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_electricity_blackout_in_New_York (5878 words)

	2003 North America blackout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The operators of the power system control center are responsible for ensuring that they balance the supply of power, the loads (customers demanding that power), and the transmission line capacity, so that their system was in a state where no single fault can cause it to fail.
		Many people who in prior flouts would have relied on transistor radios for news discovered to some dismay that they no longer had one, having long since replaced them with portable CD players and other such devices.
		Metro North trains stopped, and remained on the tracks for hours until they could be towed to the nearest station.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_North_America_blackout (5870 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Flag of The United States of America This is a list of the states of the United States in order of their total area, land area, and water area.
		The 22nd United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.
		This is a list of United States of America states by population as of 2005, according to the 2005 Census estimates taken by the United States Census Bureau.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Massachusetts (1038 words)

	The Dominion: North America in the Dark: the Blackout in Context (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Dominion: North America in the Dark: the Blackout in Context
		North America in the Dark: the Blackout in Context
		North American's energy gluttony goes beyond the issue of inequities in energy consumption; the pollution from the burning of fossil fuels in the US and Canada is causing disproportionate harm to communities around the world.
	dominionpaper.ca /environment/2003/09/12/north_amer.html (1206 words)

	Behind the Blackout
		With the flout, more than seven hundred thousand barrels per day of refinery capacity were shut down.
		In fact, even though America uses a lot of air conditioning some areas have become fairly efficient in the ways they use it.
		Following the 1965 flout when NERC was created there was a mandate that publicly owned and regulated power providers had to build new plants.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/082103_blackout.html (3185 words)

	Is World Population a Concern? Robert Heilbroner, Thomas Malthus, and the Application of Both (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As mentioned, this was the overall population of America (not including slaves) and was not conducted on a state-by-state basis.
		The countries have similar histories (considering America was an English property) and the religious and cultural makeup of both nations is roughly the same.
		The 2003 North America Blackout left many people wandering the streets and left financial losses estimated to be over $6 billion dollars.
	www.framingbusiness.net /heilbronerpopulation.htm (6511 words)

	The Great Blackout of 2003 and the Situation in Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We know, from experience, that the North Koreans can train their troops (who are drafted for up to seven years service) to a high degree of skill.
		The North Korean generals are not fools, and it is known that they have studied carefully what happened in Kuwait in 1991 and Kosovo in 1999.
		North Korea has to conquer South Korea within a few months, or perhaps even weeks, before their numerical and surprise advantage disappears.
	www.strategypage.com /dls/articles/20030818.asp (3116 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Blackout) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Photograph shows a satellite view of the August 2003 flout of northeastern United States and Canada.
		The original picture is a composite image of nighttime North America which someone has manipulated with an editing program to darken the northeastern area.
		Time, then much of North American would be obscured by clouds, the western portion of the continent would still be bathed by at least partial sunlight at the time of the photo, and the Earth's curvature would be noticeable in the picture.
	www.snopes.com /photos/blackout.asp (348 words)

	Blackout of 2003
		Blackout clues may lie in `graveyard': Studies to determine what caused power and telephone poles to fail during Hurricane Wilma have fueled tension between Florida Power and Light and BellSouth.
		Interim Report of the Investigation Committee on the 28 September 2003 flout in Italy.
		Blackout 101 - see the presentations made to congressional staffers on Feb. 6 by PSERC researchers and other expert members of the Power Engineering Society.
	www.pserc.wisc.edu /Resources.htm (6462 words)

	Toronto : search word
		It is one of the safest cities to live in North America; its crime rate is one of the lowest in Canada and North America.
		In 2003, a Luminous Veil (a 5-metre high fence constructed of 10,000 steel rods) was installed along the sides of the bridge, which had long been a popular suicide spot (second in North America to the Golden Gate Bridge).
		In the 2003 Toronto election David Miller was elected to replace Mel Lastman as mayor, after running a successful campaign which included the promise to cancel a proposed fixed link to the Toronto Island Airport.
	www.searchword.org /to/toronto.html (4933 words)

	Satan's Laundromat: Blackout!
		Posted by: ~bc at August 15, 2003 11:20 PM Great Pictures,,everyone seemed unpanicked by it all..I was visiting from Florida and made it back to Patchogue,ny with my niece just in time..we sat and had beers and had a campfire in her backyard..it was great..
		Posted by: cat at August 21, 2003 05:40 PM I thought that the pictures were great and the captions were good, but I dont get the name.
		Posted by: Ronelle at September 4, 2003 02:20 PM Thanks for a look at New York and the life there even when there is a disaster be it only a power failure.
	www.satanslaundromat.com /sl/archives/000112.html (2127 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| N America powers up - slowly
		A former US energy secretary, Bill Richardson, said the problem was lack of transmission capacity, describing the United States as a superpower with a third world electricity grid.
		The flout occurred on one of the hottest days of the year, when the demand for air conditioning soared.
		The flout closed the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, which links the United States and Canada and is used by 27,000 vehicles daily.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3152985.stm (761 words)

	The 2003 Blackout - Reference and Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Blackout History Project contains a wealth of information about the 1965, 1977 and 2003 flouts in the United States and Canada.
		August 14, 2003 Blackout: NERC Actions to Prevent and Mitigate the Impacts of Future Cascading Blackouts
		The Blackout of 2003: Sweating in the Dark.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /hepg/Blackout.htm (365 words)

	Did a Secret Military Experiment Cause the 2003 Blackout? - Sierra Times.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I believe the facts I have presented herein are sufficient to speak for themselves and should convince the public that oversight is needed when experimenting with aspects of the atmosphere that are not well known.
		By having a flout that covered one quarter of the country we can now see how people would respond, what the strengths and weaknesses of our emergency response systems are, and how quickly we could restore our systems to operating capacity.
		Sattelite environment shows that an enhanced flux of high energy electrons which would create preferable reflection conditions for HAARP were present at the time of the event, and geomagnetic activity that could cause problems with the power-grid were non-existent.
	www.sierratimes.com /03/09/10/article_blackout.htm (1578 words)

	Dalton McGuinty - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In preparation for the 2003 election, the party adopted a platform that emphasized lowering class sizes in schools, hiring more nurses, increasing environmental protections, and "holding the line" on taxes.
		The 2003 North America flout gave Eves increased exposure and rallied some support for his party.
		He called an election immediately after the flout, and polling showed that the previous Liberal lead had narrowed to a tie in the first week.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Dalton_McGuinty (3151 words)

	What is 2003? : Abaara fun facts and uncommon knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also:
		2003 California recall: Voters recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elect Arnold Schwarzenegger to succeed him.
		Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
	info.abaara.com /pac/2003 (1570 words)

	Most IT departments were not sufficiently prepared for North America blackout
		Although more than 76 percent of companies surveyed said that the flout had an impact on their organisation, most of them admitted that they were not sufficiently prepared.
		"I think that this flout demonstrated that most IT departments, especially those in mid-sized companies, are still flying by the seat of their pants," said Jason Livingstone, analyst at Info-Tech Research Group.
		82 percent of companies are concerned that another flout will hit their area within the next twelve months, and they are taking steps to ensure that they will be better prepared for the next time.
	www.continuitycentral.com /news0486.htm (372 words)

	Year 2000 problem - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In North America the actions taken to remedy the possible problems did have unexpected benefits.
		The Y2K preparations further had impact on August 14, 2003 during the 2003 North America flout.
		As midnight approached on 31 December, a team of US and Russian military personnel was in place because of the significant danger that uncorrected Y2K faults in Russian military computers might set off warning systems or even cause missile launches, thus possibly risking nuclear war.
	www.voyager.in /Y2K (3244 words)

	Blackout Shade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		1) " Blackout" -- In re: Blackout Shade
		Additionally, intentionalflouts can be used in coastal regions to prevent city lights from outlining ships (shore-side flouts).This makes ships hard for enemy submarines to detect.
		Shade is the blocking of sunlight (in particular direct sunshine) by any object, and also the shadow created by that object.
	www.witchware.com /File/19073-Blackout.Shade.Html (547 words)

	CNN.com - Major power outage hits New York, other large cities - Aug. 14, 2003
		Bryan Lee, a spokesman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said it appeared that a "cascading flout" destabilized the Niagara-Mohawk power grid as far north as Canada and as far west as Detroit and Cleveland.
		The last big flout in the United States took place almost exactly seven years ago, August 11, 1996, when some 4 million customers in nine Western states and parts of Mexico lost power for as long as 10 hours.
		In the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965, the largest in U.S. history, at least 25 million people in New York, New England and portions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey lost electricity for a day starting late in the afternoon of November 9.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/14/power.outage (1312 words)

	Brittle Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As America plunged into the dark ages last week and millions of Americans went without electricity, the message was clear: the terrorists had struck.
		The recent cascading power failures along the entire east coast of North America was a graphic illustration of the vulnerability and brittleness of hard energy supply paths.
		The flouts in North America and London and the southeast show how vulnerable we are to equipment failure, system overload or terrorist attack.
	www.heureka.clara.net /gaia/brittle-power.htm (3473 words)

	During 2003 North America blackout, pollution dropped 50-90%, visibility increased 25 miles :: UnderReported.com :: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During 2003 North America flout, pollution dropped 50-90%, visibility increased 25 miles :: UnderReported.com :: Surprising stories from the media and primary sources
		The August 2003 North American electrical flout provided a unique opportunity to quantify directly the contribution of power plants to regional haze and O
		Airborne observations over central Pennsylvania on August 15, 2003, ~24 h into the flout, revealed large reductions in SO (~50%), and light scattered by particles (~70%), relative to measurements outside the flout region or over the same location when power plants were operating normally.
	www.underreported.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1327&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (261 words)

	CNN.com - Power returns to most areas hit by blackout - Aug. 15, 2003
		Canada was experiencing rolling flouts Friday night, but Ontario Hydro was working to re-establish power in the province.
		The White House said Friday that a joint U.S.-Canadian task force will be formed to "identify the causes of the recent power outage." In addition to trying to find the cause of the outage, the task force will "seek solutions to help prevent future outages," according to the statement.
		New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at least one person died as a result of the flout, and at least one firefighter was injured.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/15/power.outage (1240 words)

	UnderReported.com :: Surprising stories from the media and primary sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The greatest effects are predicted to occur north, west and south of the Canaries.
		On the West Saharan shore waves are expected to reach heights of 100 metres from crest to trough and on the north coast of Brazil waves over 40 metres high are anticipated.
		Florida and the Caribbean, the final destinations in the North Atlantic to be affected by the tsunami, will have to brace themselves for receiving 50 metre high waves - higher than Nelson's column in London, some 8 to 9 hours after the landslide.
	www.underreported.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=&topic=18 (2856 words)

	CBC News: Eastern blackout slowly lifting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		TORONTO - Power is returning to pockets of Southern Ontario and parts of New York state, but the enormous flout that struck the region on Thursday afternoon is far from over.
		The flout is the largest in North America in almost 40 years.
		Adding to the misery is a heat wave that's blanketed much of eastern North America.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/08/14/power_030814 (295 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Humor (Blackout)
		Photograph from FOXNews web site depicting the New York City skyline the morning after the 2003 North American flout includes a view of the World Trade Center towers.
		The use of stock photos — images of well-known people and places retained on file — has been a common practice among the news media for many years now.
		2003 flout (when power was still out in much of northeastern North America) purportedy includes a view of the World Trade Center towers, destroyed nearly two years earlier in the
	www.snopes.com /humor/mediagoofs/blackout.asp (360 words)

	New York City
		New York City is sited among an archipelago of islands astride the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard of North America, surrounding the fine New York Harbor, which was the very reason for the city's founding.
		The Hudson River, which is sometimes known in the city, where it is really a tidal estuary, as the North River, flows from the Hudson Valley into New York Bay, and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from New Jersey.
		Unlike most of America's car-oriented urban areas, public transportation is the common mode of travel for the majority of New York City residents.
	en.mcfly.org /New_York_City (6313 words)

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