Power outages hit north-eastern US - some Stardock servers down

Thursday, August 14, 2003 by GreenReaper | Discussion: WinCustomize News

The entire north-eastern US power grid has gone offline. Object Desktop subscribers should still be able to get their software as the main servers are outside the affected area - however, the main Stardock website appears to be down, as are news and IRC servers. Service will be resumed when the power is - for now, sit tight. Update: stardock.com is now back online. Still no news or IRC


Added note by KarmaGirl: Please note that this also effects our online store, creating accounts and certain database functions due to the in-house database functions.  Unfortunately, local communications have been effected by this.  Some areas are out of phones due to powers surges destroying equipment.  It is doubtful that if we brought Stardock up on power that we would be able to connect out to restore internet connectivity.

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DavidK
Reply #1 Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:50 PM
Good luck to everyone in the affected area... it's a hot day and until the power comes back on it'll just get hotter.  The news here said power should be restored in about two hours, if that's true it won't be too bad. I hope you all come through it okay...

George Rogers Jr
Reply #2 Thursday, August 14, 2003 8:51 PM
DavidK & 'Reaper, Thanks so much for this update/information....I live in Huntington Bch, CA & everything seems to working OK on my end...hope the folks cut-off back east are restored soon!

Young Twig
Reply #3 Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:00 PM
I just finished a SysMetrix skin when the power went out. I was about to take the screenshot when my sound system farted and everything went black. It's all better now, so, I can actually upload it...

Bushman
Reply #4 Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:19 PM
Ya I was hit. but It didn't last long.

MadIce
Reply #5 Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:46 PM
Ah. Good to know, Reaper. I was wondering about that.

lalfonsob
Reply #6 Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:22 PM
Oh Guys! I work in New York! That was a disaster! Manhattan was a mess! I had to walk from downtown, (I work just in front of were the twin towers stood) to grand Central Terminal, then we had to rent a car because I live in CT, Trumbull and one of my friends that work with me lives in stamford CT. We rented the car and we couldn't move because the traffic was a chaos. I didn't see police no where, Just normal people directing the traffic. Now it's 11:18 PM and I just got home! I will let you know the details tomorrow! Now I'm just tired!
The only thing I can say now is that New York is not prepared for an emergency!

KC
Reply #7 Friday, August 15, 2003 12:42 AM
Keeping all night watch o make sure y'all are safe Just wish I had my graphics program down here to skin while I stand watch...

Well wishes to those involved in the black out...

Souldjya
Reply #8 Friday, August 15, 2003 12:58 AM
sucks to be you if oyu live in the northeast... really sucks... uh.. sorry, and all that stuff

Big Doug
Reply #9 Friday, August 15, 2003 2:42 AM
Yeah. Power flickered here, went out for 2 mins, and was right back on.

All my best to those still stuck in it.

Quokka1979
Reply #10 Friday, August 15, 2003 6:21 AM
good luck to all of ya out there

MarkMcQ
Reply #11 Friday, August 15, 2003 7:17 AM
Hope you guys get things sorted soo.....oh, hang on, you can't read this.

KarmaGirl
Reply #12 Friday, August 15, 2003 7:51 AM
I live in the power grid that was effected, but I live much SW of Detroit area (I live 55 miles from Stardock...yes, I commute quite a bit).  I'm obviously at home right now since Stardock is still without power   Since I have a different power company than most of Southern Michigan, my power has been restored.  It has been off and on, though.  I feel really bad for those in the metro Detroit area as water supplies are running low at this point.  I live in the country, so I have a well.  Ironically, since I have a generator, as do most of my neighbors, we are not the area in need, but we are the ones with power.  Even if those in metro detroit have generated power, they still wouldn't have water

The Rated PG
Reply #13 Friday, August 15, 2003 7:59 AM
Best thing about being raised in Texas and living in the south. We have backouts all the time in bad weather months. Blackouts aren't anything for us.

gillon
Reply #14 Friday, August 15, 2003 8:05 AM
Well, my section of Toronto had the power restored around 3 am. Our Premier has declared a state of emergency, so I can't go into work today, what a shame....NOT.

DaWebMassa
Reply #15 Friday, August 15, 2003 9:02 AM
I live in NY and still had no power in my area when I left for work this morning. Only 60% of Long Island had power as of this morning. Lucky (sarcasm) for me work has power this morning.

Josh Oliver
Reply #16 Friday, August 15, 2003 9:20 AM
I live near Detroit (south east michigan), and we just got back power. They say by monday all power should be restored.

Also: parts of california, washington, missisipi, utah, indiana, ohio, michigan, new york, and some canadiam cities were all affected.

Frogboy
Reply #17 Friday, August 15, 2003 10:21 AM

I'm out of luck here.  Power was out all night. power is still out today.  Phones have stopped working too.


CNN says power won't be back on here in Michigan until Sunday!


So how am I posting? Battery laptop and battery powered cellphone!


Larry Kuperman
Reply #18 Friday, August 15, 2003 11:08 AM
Parts of Michigan are getting their power back on. I live 25 miles from Stardock. My power came back on at 7:30 this morning, but neighbors 3 miles away still don't have any power more than 3 hours later. Livonia is still a ghost town.

There have been wonderful stories of people helping each other. Sharing gas, food and comfort. I was stuck with three containers of melting ice cream. Fortunately my neighbors helped to eat it!

Stay safe everybody.

MadIce
Reply #19 Friday, August 15, 2003 12:14 PM
MadIce hopes things will be back to normal for all of you soon.

UBoB
Reply #20 Friday, August 15, 2003 12:59 PM
Larry, I definately would have helped with the Ice Cream. In my younger day I probably could have handled 2 of the containers myself.

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