Haha That would be a long rope I guess.
UB North had outages. A few companies I know over in Tonawanda also had flickering and outages. WTF…did Niagara Falls stop moving and cause a shortage? 
They accidentally the falls.
The whole falls?
One of our cnc machines got some random operating system error around 1, but it kept on cutting. Other than that, nothing.
Even the machines that usually give us problems have been working well.
In OP by the stadium.
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It was a very odd surge and it makes me VERY worried about our grids. It was felt from the Southtowns to Downtown at the same time, that’s nuts if it was caused by “personal equipment”.
We had lights flickering out here in medina…
When I got home both my linksys routers were locked up in diagnostic mode. In north buffalo
Its not that surprising really. Sounds like a large industrial company etc either had an “issue” with some of their stuff and or maybe a miscommunication somewhere and tripped out the circuit. Im going to go ahead and guess it was prolly on the 115kv line, at least 1 circuit, mostly because I dont know of many people on the 230kv as far as industrial customers… Just guessing here. Im surprised I actually didnt hear anything about it…
Was working in Alden/Darien all day, nothing happened (that I noticed)
They said it was felt from Dunkirk to Lewiston and then over to Batavia
It shut down all of our large machines and killed one of the boards in one of 6 color presses in north buffalo by fowlers.
I was sitting in Subway in EA and noticed the lights flicker. It was odd but I didn’t think anything of it until I saw this.
never noticed anything in GI. we have power backup with a deisel generator at work though, we dont even get a flicker when it switches from power to backup. when did this happen?
Little more info in the Buffalo News this morning.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article425576.ece
Electricity customers in much of Western New York experienced a series of brief power interruptions shortly after noon Tuesday, resulting from a problem with a major transmission line.
The interruptions — known as “power blinks” — lasted for only a second or two and were linked to a high-voltage National Grid power line. The blinks were blamed on a National Grid commercial customer working on equipment connected to the power line.
“We’re still running it down,” said Stephen F. Brady, a National Grid spokesman. The interruptions — experienced by customers from Tonawanda to Fredonia to Batavia – also affected some New York State Electric & Gas Corp. customers.
“It’s unusual when they happen,” said Brady, adding that the brief outages do not appear to have caused any lasting damage.
“No lasting damage”, unless you were one of the many people who had equipment get fried.
Just replaced a mini switch that got fried, we had servers and switches down for about an hour, I’m getting reports which would lead to fried network cards…Who can I sue?
Good to know the WNY power grids seem made to be out of recycled tin cans and wire.
Your CTO for not putting your sensitive electronics behind good UPS power?
This is a problem throughout the whole country, not just wny.