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

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html
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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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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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...
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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!
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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...
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ya I was hit. but It didn't last long.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ah. Good to know, Reaper. I was wondering about that.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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!
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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...
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah. Power flickered here, went out for 2 mins, and was right back on.

All my best to those still stuck in it.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hope you guys get things sorted soo.....oh, hang on, you can't read this.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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!

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
/me hopes things will be back to normal for all of you soon.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Larry, I definately would have helped with the Ice Cream. In my younger day I probably could have handled 2 of the containers myself.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ya I was one of the 50 million people out of power, I live in Watkins Glen, NY. You may have heard of that town, because the race was held there a week ago. But we lost power till 12:00PM last night. POWER LOSS SUCKS, its amazing what you take for granted when you loose power. LIKE WINCUSTOMIZE.COM!!
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Still no power for my house (NY) at 3pm eastern time today (Friday).
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
life just ain't the same without #wincustomize or #stardock :snif: :snif:
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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