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From CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck several large cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.

Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Ottawa, Ontario. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m.

Much of Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street were shut down, including all area airports and the Long Island Railroad. The airports were operating on back-up power and operations were reported to be normal, officials said.

The New York City Police Department said they were trying to determine what happened. A Con Edison transformer on East 14th Street in Manhattan was afire, CNN learned.

Thousands of people could be seen leaving buildings and walking into the streets. New York subways were reported stopped and people were trapped in the cars.





Ok folks the news is in and it looks like the vast majority of New York is without power along with some parts of Canada, Michigan, etc. I live in Toledo and the electricity went out but came back on right away .(Thank god). So anyway, Let the specualation begin. We dont know anything yet but its never to late to start throwing around ideas and scare people with thoughts of terrorism. And hey its New York so riots are scary possibility. Sure it could just be a fire or an explosion at a power plant (Thats allready been reported as a possibility) but you know people are going to exagerate the info and start nation wide panic. I for one am taking this VERY lightly untill we get some solid facts. Ofcourse in the case of this becoming more serious I apologise for my light hearted take on the situation. So what do you guys think, or maybe you know something I dont even ?.