[geeks] Powa outage in NY. Blaster worm?

[Andrew Weiss]

IT was horrible.

I just got home an hour ago.

I was in MTV studios working on setting up a brand new printer (before 
I could find a power outlet the power died) when it happened.

I meandered back to Grand Central... found it a no go... walked to 61st 
and Lexington... called my gf...

Went to 80th or so... went through central park to the west side to 
90th.

Was extorted out of 8 bucks (all I had...lucky he didn't take my 
Powerbook FW) by some guy who pretended I broke his glasses by kicking 
them after he dropped them... truth is he dropped them and I heard it 
and he was 20 ft behind me...

I walked to the West side highway... tried to cross... couldn't ... got 
to Columbia U.. and got 4 bucks donated to me and offered a sandwich... 
was told how to get an M5 bus to 178th street where I could get a bus 
to Fort Lee NJ... I was packed like a sardine into the bus... and that 
was an agonizing hour and a half journey complete with a wheelchair 
passenger adventure... (absolutely packed bus)... Got to the 
terminal... took a bus to NJ GW bridge plaza... took a bus to Spring 
Valley/// and finally got picked up by girlfriend.

It was one of the most frightening nights I've gone through...

Normally I take Metro North straight from Grand Central... not 
tonight....

BLURF!


I was thinking it was a fault shift along the Northeast fault... that 
one near Missouri... but supposedly it was lightning on the Niagara 
power plant... seems like Windows was running that system with that 
nice viral shutdown... stupid stupid stupid... and now I can forsee 
hundreds of hardware trouble tickets tomorrow....AAAAGGHHGH!

*implodes*

On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 09:29  PM, Thomas Gallaway wrote:

> Maybe the blaster worm shut down the power grid? Just a tought. hehe..
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