So who was affected and how?

The server seems to have held - it's in New Jersey, but I believe the facility has backup generators running. Would anyone who had access to the net comment on the site's availability?

Myself, I was stuck in Manhattan for the night, spent it with a few people over at a friend's house, and then slowly made my way home (to Brooklyn) this afternoon. The power at my house didn't come on until like 7 - 8 PM, one of the last parts of New York City to do so.

Now it's your turn

I didn't have a chance to check out Flooble Thursday evening, as when the 9 people including myself at our work site on the east side of Manhattan decided to go over to Verizon HQ at 6th Ave & 42nd St, which had generator power in its lower half, the major use for the internet was to find transportation out of the city. Someone found NJTransit at Penn station was running a few trains and we got one that stopped at Newark and my friend's girlfriend picked us up and they drove me to my car. By the time I got home it was midnight. The lights were already back on and I just checked out my computer to see it was OK. My wife had shut it down within the 15 minutes that my battery backup lasts. The electricity here in Bloomfield was on and off between 5 PM and 5:45 at which time it stayed off until about 9:30, Thursday.

Some aspects made for a somewhat interesting puzzle. A 12-hour electronic clock that reset to 12:00 at the resumption of power is 9 hours 28 minutes behind. So power resumed at 9:28. A mechanical electric clock is 3 hours 20 minutes behind. So the power was out a total of that much time. But it didn't start just at 6:08; it started earlier, but came back and went out again--as evidenced by the TiVo, which is set to record channel 2 between 4 and 4:30 and channel 4 between 4:58 and 7:30 PM. That recording was broken into segments during which the power was on, and showed the power off from 4:08 to 4:14, 4:16 to 4:20, 4:23-4:27; 5:00 - 5:08; 5:14-5:19 and 5:47 onward. So it must have been intermittently on in between thereafter so that only 3 h 20 m would have been lost by the time power came back for good at 9:28.

So much for making a puzzle out of the blackout. I guess I like to make a puzzle out of anything.

Strangely enough, a scroll at the end of Who Wants to be a Millionaire just before 4:30 on channel 2 indicated Westchester, Long Island and NJ without power but didn't mention NYC for some reason. That was quickly followed by a Dan Rather report that mentioned blackouts affecting city hall, the west side of Manhattan and a couple of other spots in Manhattan.

By the way the Flooble clock seems to be set to the correct time now. I just noticed, with all this mention of the time. So can one go by posting times to see when people were making posts to Flooble?

That's because with the recent server move, the site is now on New York time (US Eastern time to be precise). You being in England would account for such a time difference.

I live in toronto and was at a swimming pool when it happened. Hung out with some friends and while riding my bike on the way home I get a flat. Well there goes what I was going to do during this Powerout. Wasn't so bad thought. Had power the next day.