Power Outage Thead

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Current Temperature Map for the United States

The entire country is in the red (and orange) today. It's the same in Canada. It's hotter in Minneapolis and New Jersey than southern Florida. Everyone is cranking up their air conditioners and testing the power grid. The peak in demand will happen later this afternoon.

[Bungalow Bill]

Duke really knows how to have a blackout. Mine lasted from 7:30 to 12:30.
I listened to more CDs yesterday than I have in years.

[Boatrocker]

We didn't have much of a storm last night, where I live in Simpsonville, and we still had power this morning when I left for work. But it's been out since mid-morning, with the sun shining up a storm (pun intended). I guess the way to fix some outages is to make them bigger first.

[JTA]

Current Temperature Map for the United States

The entire country is in the red (and orange) today. It's the same in Canada. It's hotter in Minneapolis and New Jersey than southern Florida. Everyone is cranking up their air conditioners and testing the power grid. The peak in demand will happen later this afternoon.

Heading up to NJ in a few weeks, hopefully it cools down. My last two trips coincided with 1) Hurricane Irene, and 2) Derecho (I was on I-95 somewhere in VA, right in the middle of it when it hit!) which knocked the power out for five days.

It's not meant to be I guess.

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Yesterday Con-Ed pleaded with New-Yorkers to conserve power, as they broke their official energy usage record by 25 megawatts around 2pm.