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sometimes, it pays to be in the dirty south ;)


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Hihihi I live in QUebec, right next to Ottawa, so I might go out on my bike, cross the bridge and laugh at people on parliament hill ( Parliament = like the Capitol in Washington).

The news are boring as hell on this though, aren't they? They have been repeating the same boring thing...

Oh wait, you're not supposed to drink the water now.

And I was talking to Bend on AIM, and he suddenly disconnected at the same time as another guy who lives prolly close to him hahaha.
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At 8/14/03 06:27 PM, poxpower wrote: Hihihi I live in QUebec, right next to Ottawa, so I might go out on my bike, cross the bridge and laugh at people on parliament hill ( Parliament = like the Capitol in Washington).

The news are boring as hell on this though, aren't they? They have been repeating the same boring thing...

lol! yeah, get a big megaphone and go laugh at ppl that have there power out. but watch yourself. there might be an angry mob out there.


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Dammit, i was going to make a topic about this,

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poor poor poor ppl...( hahahahahahah)
News on this suck though.

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At 8/14/03 04:46 PM, TomFulp wrote: New York City is experiencing major brown-out/black-outs today, so chances are our servers are running on generators at the moment. If the site goes down this afternoon, that's why. :)

just saw that on the late night news i hope it was better then it sounds =(


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Weird. Any word on what happened yet? Aside from mere speculation?

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Hurray for Nevada!


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At 8/14/03 04:46 PM, TomFulp wrote: New York City is experiencing major brown-out/black-outs today, so chances are our servers are running on generators at the moment. If the site goes down this afternoon, that's why. :)

Oh shi


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yah ive been hopin it doesnt come down to phili cause id hate to have no electricity =/. i was wondering why the servers were down for the BBS last night?


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At 8/14/03 06:49 PM, TheShrike wrote: Weird. Any word on what happened yet? Aside from mere speculation?

well, i heard a power station called niagra mohawk fried and that caused huge blackouts.


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At 8/14/03 06:59 PM, poop_face wrote: yah ive been hopin it doesnt come down to phili cause id hate to have no electricity =/. i was wondering why the servers were down for the BBS last night?

they were? i didnt notice that. i was on all day. from maybe 12 am to 5 am. sooo.. well i guese it depends where you live. i was on a lot more than that.. but that was the night, here in us.


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yes, actually, they were down.


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It was mcdonalds. Blame it on mcdonalds..


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At 8/14/03 06:59 PM, poop_face wrote: yah ive been hopin it doesnt come down to phili cause id hate to have no electricity =/. i was wondering why the servers were down for the BBS last night?

The servers weren't down. There may, however, have been a problem with one of the database tables for the BBS.

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At 8/14/03 06:11 PM, ToasterLock wrote: sometimes, it pays to be in the dirty south ;)

THE NORHT FUCKIN RULES!!!!!!! I live in akron, my power is on. :-) But clevlands is off. HAHA. lol.


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At 8/14/03 07:47 PM, nseal_nc wrote:
At 8/14/03 06:11 PM, ToasterLock wrote: sometimes, it pays to be in the dirty south ;)
THE NORHT FUCKIN RULES!!!!!!! I live in akron, my power is on. :-) But clevlands is off. HAHA. lol.

And... Cleveland would be to the... NORTH of Akron, correct?

So why the fuck are you laughing at them having their power off while yours isn't if anything NORTH of anything else is superior, eh? Ah well. Geographical-based prejudiced morons can't be reasoned with, I suppose.

Anyway, just heard on the news: spokeswoman for the Canadian PM said it was a lightning strike on a generation complex near Niagara/Buffalo that triggered the entire thing. Fascinating.

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On cnn.com, they say that a Niagara Falls (US side) powerplant was stroke by lightning and that it may have been the problem.


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hey tom i posted some thing on the black out before you did haha


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the servers should run great without ontario, detroit, and the rest clogging it up.


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At 8/14/03 08:52 PM, -angery- wrote: the servers should run great without ontario, detroit, and the rest clogging it up.

man, id hate to have a black out... but none here in DC... maybe angerys face will power it up


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Well, we can make fun of it as much as we want , since the people without power cant use their computers!
hahah!


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At 8/14/03 05:17 PM, Painbringer wrote: I read somewhere that you guys have new servers in Isreal.

Are those servers any good for the current situation?

Hehe - we don't have new servers in Israel. We have new software from Israel (the makers of PHP are from Israel, and we license their Zend software to increase performance).

So far the backup generators at our hosting facility have done their job great. Newgrounds is hosted right out of Manhattan, so they haven't had regular power all afternoon!


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At 8/14/03 09:55 PM, JmBd wrote: Damn, what ISP do you use? They must be great to have their hosting. :)

Tom's ISP is nothing to do with the hosting service for Newgrounds. What are you talking about?

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At 8/14/03 04:46 PM, TomFulp wrote: New York City is experiencing major brown-out/black-outs today, so chances are our servers are running on generators at the moment. If the site goes down this afternoon, that's why. :)

I heard some major generator had critical problems and pats of canada are being effected, something is messed up over there, i also heard that jfk and laguardia had shut down for a few moments before the backups came on.
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This site can't go down, this is my entire form of entertainment online! lol


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At 8/14/03 05:17 PM, BlGBADRON wrote: HEY, NYC USERS! HOLLA BACK!

oh wait... YOU CANT!
HAHHAHAHAHA

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HA! I LIVE IN HAWAII. so i rool. becuz i live in hawaii. and far away from nyc . i rool. 1m r374r73d 1 5huld d13 1m 1337. 0k im 4 n008


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Good thing I have my own energy generator in my house just in case

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At 8/14/03 04:46 PM, TomFulp wrote: New York City is experiencing major brown-out/black-outs today, so chances are our servers are running on generators at the moment. If the site goes down this afternoon, that's why. :)

shit this motherfuckin site better

not go down becuz if it does. im going to b sad. :( and mad >:(


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