The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Wow, all the power is out in all those cities.....I must say I can't help but think about Captain Planet and his energy conversing warnings.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>NYC, Toronto, Erie PA, Northern NJ, Northern Ohio, Michigan...everyone's leaving NY in exodus.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>This is why you don't rely on ---ONE--- power plant to power ALL OF THE FUCKING NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES!!</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>So the news just said it came from canada.......damn canadians always trying to fuck use over :p</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>it's gotta be more than one power plant on that grid</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>I have power, so i'm happy.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Try 21.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Entire North-Eastern seaboard was out. From Ohio to New York, to Ottawa, to Thunder Bay, it was crazy. We were out for 10 hours.....on my first day free from school to do nothing but play game and watch movies :-(</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Lol, that's right. What are you doing this weekend? I'm only busy Sunday.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Shit, I just remembered that my cousin's wife commutes an hour and a half into New York, and she's five months pregnant.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Unfortunately, that news was premature. It was your relatives in Ohio boyo :P</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Baskerville; text-align: left; '>I lucked out and was only down about 3 1/2 hours...</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Our good old nuclear power plant is still running fine, absolutely no problems.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Then where was the other 20 power plants when the power went out?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, damn that hydroelectric power :P</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Read the stories. One went down, and other plants tried rerouting power to compensate for the loss. This overloaded the transmission lines and transformers, so failsafes shut everything down - like a circuit breaker. Better to shut it all down for a few hours than to have permanent damage.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Sounds like their backup plan for plants going down needs work. If it's just going to shutdown the NE US, what's the point of having a rerouting plan in the first place?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>From what I've read, the transmission lines are old. There's no profit in upgrading them, so that hasn't happened. But if you want a more accurate analysis, read one of the many stories on one of the many newspapers online.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>No profit in upgrading them? Heh...looks like there's a profit it in now. (Or rather, profit loss prevention.)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You know, the power companies might not have lost much money. Maybe for repairs, but I'm not sure. I'd like to see estimates for that.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>companies don't give a shit about loss prevention. If there's one thing I've learned at my blue collar summer job it's that they all go by the phrase "if it ain't broken don't fix it"</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Camping then honeymoon</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Money? No. Heads being lopped off their necks? Yes. One does not cause the biggest blackout in US history and not get reamed for it.</div>