Dark Cities

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I'll admit, a part of me is laughing at the power outtage on the north east coast yesterday. The little devil on my shoulder is jumping up and down dancing and singing "Ha ha! How do YOU like it, huh?! Laugh at us Californians for our power problems, huh? huh? Look at you, a whole freaking multi-state, multi-national outage! ha ha!"

Then the angel on my other shoulder slaps her wrist and shoves cake in her mouth to get her to shut up. She still grins a bit, though.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I do remember that NY has had significant black-outs before. I was kind of surprised that this one included some Canadian cities as well though-- it had never occured to me that they mihg have interconnecting power sources.

[sweet-ali.livejournal.com]

Yep one main one right near Niagra Falls. Actually, the last huge one that lasted for several days was b/c lightning struck this same plant. You would think that we woul have the technology at this point to avoid blackouts like this, you know? On either coast.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. I think it's the opposite-- by having technology in the first place we're accepting the possibility of black-outs. We'll never be free of the risk of technical failure as long as we employ technology, and we can only prepare for the weather so much.

[sweet-ali.livejournal.com]

Well, at least this time, it seems it isn't weather related. And i agree about this dependence on technology. One of my friends was staying at a hotel and the bellhops had to escort everyone back to their rooms b/c there were no keys, only key cards.

There are rumors of a hacker getting into the system. Which is highly possibly. Again with the dependence.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I had wondered about the key-cards. That's be an annoying setback.