The cause of a July power outage in Vancouver that left thousands without electricity for three days has been identified as an overheated connector in a manhole. An independent report said that the utility...
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Well, the vast majority of us made through the storm, now we have to get through FEMA and a lot of us (1,500,000) are just waiting to get our power on. Survival of the Patience is all we have to work with. Here are...
opinion by maddogzs | 9 wks ago | updated 8 wks ago 221 views | 3 comments | 34 recommendations
UPDATE | 03:25pm PST -- Gmail is back up. Everyone can relax now.
PREVIOUSLY | 03:01 PST Google's Gmail application is down for almost everyone right now, but at least you can still view your account via the older...
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"This is Rachel Nixon. I'm calling on behalf of the NowPublic team about the Vancouver fires. It's Monday, the 14th of July. As previously reported on NowPublic there are severe power outages in Downtown Vancouver...
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There is speculation that the Chinese government is starting to crack down on what they see as unofficial media. We'll have to see how this develops as the Olympics starts up. My guess is that we'll...
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Mozilla is going for a world record on its inital release of Firefox 3, but their fans are a bit too keen: Downloading the new browser vesion was like getting Stones tickets, and Mozilla's beleagured servers had to...
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UPDATE: Power's restored. Which isn't to say that perhaps some portions of government aren't still working in the dark.Out of power: the Treasury Department. Apparently, though, Congress is still working. Maybe being...
My heart and prayers go out to the family " A Tennessee woman who spent almost all of her life in an iron lung died after a power outage shut down the machine. The woman, Dianne Odell, 61, had been restricted to the...
An iguana caused 20,000 people to lose power in Florida. The iguana unfortunately lost his life after he came in contact with the high-voltage equipment. "An iguana apparently caused a power outage...
Sources close to MTS Allstream report that they have experienced a major outage on two OC192 fibre rings causing widespread service failures on telephone and data circuits in Western Canada. The cause of the outage and the estimated repair time are not yet...
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Comcast Major Internet Outage in 7 statesPolitisite did a quick background check on other major internet Comcast outages. What we found were outages in 2005, 2007 and today. All happened in the month of April,...
" STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Stockholm's central train station, halting elevators and escalators. The...
Developing story..."Millions of people in Pakistan's largest city have been without electricity, following a power outage.
Pakistan's state-run utility said it had cut supplies to Karachi because the city's power...
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A 6.9 magnitude earthquake rumbled through the Bicol region, southeast of Manila late Monday. There have been no reported injuries or damage as the 'quake was located 56km below the surface."Philippine scientists put the preliminary magnitude at 6.5.The quake was felt in...
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Florida power officials are still trying to figure out how a glitch at a substation cut power to millions of people across the southern part of the state.The Associated Press is working with NowPublic to help get coverage from people affected by this story. We are asking...