Posts: 499
From: Portland, Maine, USA
Registered: MAY 2001

posted 08-27-2003 03:53 PM         

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All because of some buckeye from the briar patch.

What a bunch of worthless nuts - LoL.

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From: Sherman CT USA
Registered: NOV 2002

posted 08-27-2003 03:55 PM         

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I was lucky, power was off from 4 pm to 1:15 am. I'm getting a generator before winter!!!

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From: Texas USA
Registered: APR 2003

posted 08-27-2003 05:51 PM         

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Thats an impressive picture, alright, but notice one thing... The NE US is black, and above that in Canada, it's blue. Our local news did a story on this very picture the other night and stated that the color difference between the blue and black is how you can tell ITS A FAKE.

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Posts: 343
From: Punta Gorda, Florida
Registered: JUL 2000

posted 08-27-2003 09:20 PM         

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Although the great blackout which struck the northeastern United States and Canada on the afternoon of 14 August 2003 and lasted well into the next day darkened many large North American cities (Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Ottawa, New York), it didn't produce nearly as total a zone of blackness as depicted in the image shown above. Artificial light was still quite visible throughout many parts of the northeastern region.

Genuine satellite images processed by the Air Force Weather Agency and available on the web site the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show the extent of the blacked-out area at 7 hours after the start of the blackout and a comparative shot 20 hours before the initial power failure.

The original image appears to be a composite satellite photograph of nighttime North America which someone has manipulated with an editing program to darken the northeastern area.

All times are CT (US)