toronto a-ok (a blackout thread)

My dad used to live there, as a much younger man. Picture it being 1966, and my father, a recently arrived immigrant from Barbados being probably the only black person at Forest Hill C.I., which was then very rich and jewish. He still has his class ring.

-- j-rock, Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:43 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i wonder if your dad went to school with my mom!

does anyone know if there's tickets left for james murphy at wrongbar on saturday?

no, but I have lawn tickets for Radiohead tomorrow! (For old time's sake.)

you could try getting on a paid list via the wrongbar facebook group maybe?

paid lists are what got us into this mess.

good idea rob, thanks.

hey yeah, the explosion - there really was no thread? we nearly got shaken out of our beds here at Eg and Allen (talk about no pubs!) but i was tired enough to sleep through it. at first Zac thought it was people fucking on the dryer, but no.

I commiserate from down the street, Kim. :P I was surprised that there was no explosion thread either, but I was camping in Port Elgin so I have little to say about it except it sucks and it's on my bus route so I am glad I was far, far away at the time!

Uh...you all okay up there?

who cares. Toronto sucks.

-with love, a Torontonian

In all seriousness, all is well here up East, but.

10th anniversary. I was in the process of buying my first house, and had a 9:00 appointment the next morning to do the inspection. Had to force myself to sleep fitfully--my alarm was without batteries--and we did the inspection with no power, so all the electrical stuff had to be evaluated visually.

i had the most glorious two days off work.

Sorry for corniness but it was my own personal Bloomsday, my bf and I exhausted ourselves in separate adventures and ended the night making our first confessions of love

That story is all kinds of awww.

had to google "Bloomsday"... happy 10 year love confession anniversary!

:D

happy 10th anniv!

http://gothamist.com/2003/08/15/the_new_york_city_blackout_edition.php

I had just got back from summer camp (lol) and was sitting on my bed after a shower, listening to Slowdive and waiting to go to the to-be-postponed Radiohead concert. I remember I was looking in the mirror across from my bed when all of a sudden the music stopped. Then I went skateboarding in the plaza by my house, where many people were hectically stocking up on water, ice cream was allegedly being given away, and pizza pizza (owning as gas-powered over as they did) was doing steady business.

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Any of you without power? I was this morning (with two huge branches on top of my shed out back--don't want to venture too close, but I don't think there's any damage), got out of the house for the day, got back 30 minutes ago and it's back on. I was resigned to spending the night in a nearby motel (there was power from the Queensway north when I left this morning) but happily won't have to. As long as my neighbour's ridiculously humungous tree doesn't crash down on my roof, everything looks to be okay.

No power issues here, yet, but a block north of us there's a significant swath of powerlessness (just east of Christie Pits).

Have similar feelings about _our_ neighbour's humungous tree, which leans over our house, covered in ice. As more ice accumulates and (we're told) the wind will be picking up overnight.

Good luck!

You too. As soon as all this clears up, I've vowed to do something I should have done long ago--see if I have any legal standing to get them to cut down this tree. (I've dropped hints.) If it ever does come down on my house, I have a feeling I wouldn't see any insurance money from either their end or mine.

my lights have stayed on so far (parkdale). hoping it doesn't get too windy by the lake tonight, as i'm surrounded by huge trees on all sides.

No power since 11pm Saturday in Cedarvale - a huge tree in my neighbour's yard went down, thankfully in the opposite direction.. Doesn't look like it hit anything. We're cold and our food is in coolers in the back :P trekked out to Scarborough to check on my Grandma.. There are NO LIGHTS east of Kennedy station except for a fucking Walmart whose parking lot was all lit up :P

I liked the warm weather blackout better :(

unexpectedly, it looks like all the ice encasings have gone from the trees overnight, at least around here. Hoping power's been restored to at least some of you folks, it looks cold out there.

East End looks like it's getting the worst of this: http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/PowerOutages/Pages/OutageMap.aspx

Power came back on while I was at work this evening! I went to a friends house to shower this afternoon, it felt amazing after two mornings without showers. Apartment is still cold, but oven is on full blast to kickstart it.

15 years

http://gothamist.com/2018/08/14/blackout_2003_15_year_anniversary.php

I walked home across the Brooklyn Bridge. The convenience stores were being stripped of their ice cream and pornography.