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Sean Hannity just stated that large part of L.A. are without power....

Ezboard Inc. Victim Of Vicious Internet Attack By D.L. McCracken Jun 1, 2005, 11:30 Ezboard systems touted as the "largest online community network site on the planet", was virtually brought to its knees Tuesday as the result of "a very precise and malicious internet attack resulting in the loss of a significant amount of current and historical board postings and interrupted services across all systems", according to Ezboards' CEO, Robert Labatt's message to Ezboard members. Tuesday's attack caused denial of service errors throughout the system and affected millions of users across approximately 9,000 message boards. The attack resulted in massive...

I have been talking to a tech at bellsouth.net, and he says there is an internet backbone crash in California that is affecting eBay, MSN, and a lot of other stuff. Yes, I seem to be logged into FR, but many other sites are unavailable, including google.

Bush and GOP Web Sites Suffer Outages Thu Oct 21,12:54 AM ET By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer NEW YORK - Web sites for President Bush (news - web sites)'s campaign and the Republican National Committee (news - web sites) suffered outages for several hours on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear whether a systems failure or a hacking attack was to blame. Campaign and committee officials would only say they were investigating. The sites began experiencing problems about 11 a.m., according to two companies that monitor Internet performance. AlertSite.com, which had monitors probing the sites every 15 minutes from...

(Hartford-AP/WTNH, July 21, 2004 6:07 AM) _ Most of downtown Hartford now has power after an outage caused by an underground fire and explosion. The area was plunged into darkness just before eleven last night. Buildings, street lights and traffic signals in some parts of the downtown area went dark after an underground fire caused an explosion. Firefighters reported seeing flames shooting 20 to 30 feet into the air out of manholes. There were 145 locations affected, seven-thousand customers, most of them business and commercial customers. Crews from Connecticut Light & Power were able to bring back power about three...

My husband is supposed to be traveling tonight. He called me 20 minutes ago to announce that Miami's Airport has lost all power...at least in the B Concourse. An update from him a few minutes ago is that the PA announcement stated that power will be out for at least the next half hour. Attempts to restore power have so far failed. All computers are down. Backup generators have some emergency lighting, but that is all at this time.

Power grids and blackouts Yep, the lights went out for 50 million people yesterday, and we still don't really know why it happened. Canada blames a fault in our system; we blame a fault in Canada's system, or a bad transmission line in the Midwest, but we're all sure it wasn't a terrorist. Why? Just because nothing blew up? Let's try a little experiment, change the word terror to sabotage. Sound any more likely now? The leading theory on the root cause of the failure, at least, the leading theory as I rode in to work this morning, was the...

WASHINGTON — Though the power returned within a day to many areas darkened by the historical blackout of 2003 (search), politicians are unlikely to forget the energy issue during the 2004 election. Less than 24 hours after a power failure set off a cascading effect that left 50 million Northeastern U.S. residents in the dark, at least two presidential candidates accused the Bush administration of failing in its energy policy. "The unfortunate events on the East Coast, parts of the Midwest and in Canada yesterday are further evidence that the Bush administration is inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and...

Yesterday's widespread blackouts stretching from New York to the Great Lakes and parts of Canada originated in a power system owned by Westborough-based National Grid USA. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., based in Syracuse, N.Y., was one of several energy providers knocked out of service yesterday after a massive power surge crippled power grids around New York City, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto and Ottawa and parts of Massachusetts. Preliminary reports from affected areas tied the blackout's origins to the Mohawk-Niagara line. In January 2002, National Grid USA acquired Niagara Mohawk, which provides electricity to nearly 1.5 million customers in upstate New York,...

(Baghdad, Iraq-AP, Aug. 15, 2003 Updated 9:54 AM) _ Iraqis who have suffered for months with little electricity gloated Friday over a blackout in the northeastern United States and southern Canada and offered some tips to help Americans beat the heat. From frequent showers to rooftop slumber parties, Iraqis have developed advanced techniques to adapt to life without electricity. Daily highs have soared above 120 degrees recently as Iraq's U.S. administrators have been unable to get power back to prewar levels. Some said it was poetic justice that some Americans should suffer the same fate, if only briefly. "Let them...

NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCILPrinceton Forrestal Village116-390 Village BoulevardPrinceton, New Jersey 08540-5731 August 14, 2003 Power Outages – Announcement Starting at about 4:15 PM EDT, major losses of electric load occurred in the northeastern U.S. and Canada in the Eastern Interconnection.No cause is known at present, but the outages do not appear to be the result of a terrorist attack.The areas most affected center around the Great Lakes plus New York City, northern New Jersey and parts of New England. We do not know if these blackouts are related for sure, but it is likely.Con Edison in New York lost...

Hannity station went dead for about 20 seconds. Said he had never seen anything like it.

<p>Felipe Baca tries to cool off after a racket ball game in San Jose's Backesto Park on a hot Monday afternoon.</p> <p>When warmer-than-expected temperatures prompted California's energy grid operators to declare a power alert last week, they quickly stressed that the warning was not a harbinger of things to come.</p>