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top left - This is what the view looks like from our campsite. We have the best camping spot; secluded from all other hikers, our own stream for keeping food cold and one for drinking, and plenty of space to set up all our tents. This time we had seven tents, eight people, and six dogs.
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» 18 Years Ago, The Big Blackout Hit Toronto
August 14, 2021 11:50 pm #1
18 Years Ago, The Big Blackout Hit Toronto
I had a battery operated Sony am/fm radio, and listened nonstop to Newstalk 1010 and GNR am 640 to keep updated about the actual blackout, and just to keep a bit of normalcy during that unnerving no lights, no a/c, no nothing time period.
It was Thursday, August 14, 2003, just after 4:00 pm. and boy did radio stations come through for their listeners, providing crucial information and a sense of community.
There was the actual blackout and then I believe there were also rolling brown outs before things returned to normal, it must have been interesting and challenging as hell to be on-air.
August 15, 2021 12:06 am #2
Re: 18 Years Ago, The Big Blackout Hit Toronto
anyone remember who was on the air at the time?
Mr magoogain
cash wrote:
Stafford won the day. CFRB was off the air to start. Stafford was the only one on as it broke
I was working in our TV newsroom that day and I will never forget the exact moment the power went out. A newsroom can be a terribly noisy place, with editing bays blaring audio, people talking, phones ringing, police radios going off, etc. At about 4:11 PM, everything stopped. There was dead silence. And I'll never forget how loud that sudden silence sounded.
We were getting ready for the 6 PM show and it was just starting to get really busy. And then out of nowhere, nothing worked. The station was foolish enough not to have an emergency back-up generator, although they somehow procured one in a truck from somewhere and we were back up and running in about half an hour.
Everyone was way behind schedule, but the news director was determined to cover this story and get a show on the air, anyway. We all looked at each other and wondered, "for who?" With the power out for the entire city and most of the province, who would be able to watch this show?
Nonetheless, we did get a 6 o'clock news on that night and I'm pretty sure the only ones who ever saw it were the people in the station who presented it. (A year later, on the anniversary of that incredible day, we put it up on our website, describing it as "the newscast you never saw.")
I was lucky enough to get a ride home with a co-worker, since the subways were down. It was the single most frightening journey I've ever had - people walking everywhere and anywhere on the roads, no overheard illumination and no traffic lights. Just the headlights from the car we were in, in otherwise pitch blackness. You had to remind yourself to treat every intersection as a four-way stop the entire journey from the downtown core all the way up to where I lived at the time in North York. I'm not sure how we made it and didn't hit anyone.
It was a night - and a story - I will never forget and one of the oddest I ever had in broadcasting.
August 15, 2021 8:50 am #5
I was in a TV newsroom too RA but we DID have a backup generator and the outage was just a blip. As we went to air at 6:00 I was thinking the same as you... who can watch if power is out everywhere? Only people with home generators I guess and it turns out the satellite carriage was still up as we got some viewer feedback mostly from western Canada.
Our radio stations were in a separate location and only had battery backup which lasted several hours but then they went silent later in the evening. Luckily power was restored later that night.
It was quite a day to remember.
I was on the phone speaking with an ad agency sales rep in NYC. All of a sudden the rep I was speaking to said that the power just went out. About 10 seconds later the lights in downtown Kitchener where I was working went out. I said to the New York rep that this might be like the blackout of 1965.
About 15 minutes later I had a call from a client in Montreal. First thing I asked her was if the power was out. She said no, but she had heard that a lot of the Eastern US and most of Ontario had gone dark.
When I went home around 5:15pm, and went out to the deck to read the paper. I turned the deck light on which was located right above where I was sitting. I figured if the power came back on, I would notice right away. It was a beautiful summer evening and everyone was in their backyard. I was chatting with a neighbour after reading the paper and all of a sudden my deck light came on. It was about 6:20pm.
Don't ask me why but there were a few sections of Kitchener who only had about a 2-3 hour blackout, and I was living in one of those areas. The rest of the region was dark. So I was able to watch whatever was on television or listen to radio coverage.
I remember seeing Lloyd Robertson at around 6:45 in a dark studio with only a spotlight on him reading whatever information he had. They did have a some reports from various areas around Toronto which I thought was pretty interesting. Most stations as I recall were out on the street with live or taped reports and as the evening went on in areas of Toronto, the blackout was taking on almost a festive or party atmosphere. People were helping each other, and some were directing traffic at busy intersections. Neighbours were out talking to neighbours.
Locally Magic 106 in Guelph and Newstalk 570 did an excellent job informing people what was going on, what was open and any areas that had power in Waterloo/Wellington county. Both stations had a lot of phoners from listeners and it confirmed the importance of media in a crisis.
KOOLFM in Kitchener was terrible. They brought in their morning team, and these clowns were treating the whole thing like it was their morning show in the evening. Little information, no what was open or closed, just a lot of self indulgent comments about each other, and patting themselves on the back because they were working in the evening. As I recall there was even a letter to the editor in a local paper commenting on KOOL FM and their lack of coverage of the big blackout.
Last edited by paterson1 (August 15, 2021 11:33 am)
Peter the K
Mr magoogain wrote:
I thought Mike Stafford was long gone from RB by that time. CFRB was being anchored that day by the late great Mark Elliott. He was new at RB and was doing afternoon fill-in. He wound up being thrown into the fire, as it were. Did a spectacular job.
Still miss him.
Last edited by Peter the K (August 15, 2021 12:38 pm)
August 15, 2021 2:27 pm #8
Iain Grant
Not quite. CFRB was off air for 4 to 7 seconds while the generators switched over.
Luckily we had a hydro transformer blow up outside the building 4 or 5 weeks before, which killed all power to the entire building, so we knew exactly where all the weak points were, including the internet switch in the phone riser which would have died after 40 minutes. We ran an extension cord downstairs to keep that up and running. We did lose the CBS audio feeds because they came in from York Mills and Yonge which was dark.
I was there, Mark Elliot was on-air and after an initial 'what was that' he kept doing the show because _everything_ from phones to lighting to AC to cable-tv remained up and running.
680 was off air for a bit because corporate had keys to the UPS closet and not everything switched over properly, and then there was the CN tower clusterfuck later that night.
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
If nothing else, this certainly proves the power and value of radio. When TV is out (and possibly the Internet, too) or your phone dies because you can't recharge it, there's the audio-only powerhouse guiding you through the darkness, with the help of only a few AA batteries.
It was the same thing during the ice storm of 2013, although not everyone in the city lost hydro in that four-day outage.
I remember when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and WWL, the emergency go-to outlet for the state of Louisiana, was playing on almost every station. Again, when the chips were down - and the electricity with it - it was radio that rode to the rescue.
August 15, 2021 6:20 pm #10
I lived in London at the time and recall listening to CJBK on a battery-operated radio for most of the evening. If I'm not mistaken, they had morning man Steve Garrison come in and take calls from listeners, but I might be wrong on who it was. I was actually watching The Weather Network at the moment my power went out. I think my parents and I barbecued for dinner.
We had power back around 10:30pm, in time for CTV National News anyways; we got it back relatively early compared to many, including elsewhere in London.
I remember The London Free Press the next morning, the front page was a group of people tossing salad in a dark kitchen.
Last edited by MJ Vancouver (August 15, 2021 6:23 pm)
torontostan
ig wrote:
and then there was the CN tower clusterfuck later that night.
What happened at the tower? Generators didn't work?
August 15, 2021 10:00 pm #12
When the blackout first hit, I was helping a neighbour with some electrical work. I thought I had done something wrong.
Started to run out of power. Stations were asked to cut their output and finally _told_ to switch to their backups.
I don't honestly know why, I've always answered the question 'how long can the generator run' with 'how much fuel do you have' but either they didn't have redundant tanks that could be filled on the fly, (assuming it was diesel) or something else went wrong, or it was just never designed to carry for more than 6-8 hours. I'd imagine it must be a pretty huge load.
As I said, I don't know. I do know there were a lot of unhappy folks on a conference call around 8pm that night .
torontostan wrote:
As I recall, there were two generators for broadcast at the CN Tower. Both had to start, run, AND synchronize their output (In Phase !) as both combined to handle the entire load. I believe there was an issue with the gensets synchronizing.
As for "how long can a generator run?", it's dependent on the load, and how much fuel you have. Some broadcasters would switch to backup transmitters as they are often lower powered and thus a lesser load on the generator, and extend the run time.
Generators are typically installed to cover local power outages, not rare system-wide failures. One of the issues that quickly came up that night was fuel delivery. Everyone wanted fuel. If the delivery people don't have power, they can't fill the trucks (kinda ironic). Also, hospitals and other such facilities had priority.
I also seem to recall an issue at First Canadian Place. They also had two generators. The automated louvers that open to provide outside cooling air for the generators were connected to a single generator. That generator failed to start. The generator that did start ultimately over-heated and shutdown. They've probably changed that by now.
So was there a time where no Toronto FMs were on the air? Sounds like CN and FCP were both off-air for a period of time, potentially at the same time
Scorpio42
I remember visiting some relatives about an hour north of Kingston, Ontario that day while I was living in Sudbury, Ontario. My aunt was wondering why all the fans were turned off around the house and tried the light switches and wouldn't come on. We later found out that the power was off and initially thought it was in a localized area until I was shocked to hear it was most of the province, and the northeastern United States. Luckily, I brought down my portable 9" inch battery operated black and white TV to catch some of the live images of the black out and I was like "Oh my god".
I checked out the car radio and most of the radio stations from Ottawa, Kingston, Brockville and surrounding areas were off the air with some on backup power but had heard a few from remaining ones still on the air with some via tropo such as:
98.3 WTRY from Albany, NY - Heard while 98.3 CFLY-FM Kingston, ON was off the air.
Not tropo: 104.9 CFJR-FM Brockville, ON was still simulcasting on their old AM 830 kHz frequency at the time that were both off the air and came back on during the blackout.
I wonder if we'll ever see a widespread power blackout like the one on August 14, 2003 ever again in our lifetime?
fybush
I hadn't started working at WXXI in Rochester yet (that was a few months later) and was between broadcast jobs, doing freelance writing and getting ready for my first child, who was due a few weeks later. The TV and FM stations on Pinnacle Hill in Rochester all went off as soon as the power went out, but power stayed on at the WXXI studios downtown and at the AM 1370 site. I was friends with the engineer and went over to see how it was going and helped him shift over to generator so that it wouldn't go off if they eventually did lose power.
My rooftop antenna was pointed northeast when the power went out and I didn't (at the time) have an inverter or any other source of power to be able to turn it. Being a hot August day, tropo ducting was in full effect, so I had an FM dial full of Kingston and Ottawa and some Montreal - I did a lot of listening to CBO 91.5 that day with my local WXXI-FM off!
Around 11 or so, I went over to visit a friend who did have an inverter set up and a battery-operated TV and we scanned around to see what was still on the air on TV. He had reception all the way to Albany on 10 and 13 with our locals off.
I went home a little after that, as some areas were starting to get power back. As soon as we got ours back, I cranked my antenna over toward Albany as fast as I could in hopes of seeing their 10 and 13 - and just as I swung the antenna around, my locals on Pinnacle all came back on and the fun was over, such as it was.
August 18, 2021 3:01 am #18
the original hank
i remember listening to my buddy "mark elliott"... may he rip.
I was in the middle of a phone interview when my landline plug-in phone went dead and we lost our connection. When I realized the scope of the outage and that stations were either off or on reduced power I abandoned ship and high tailed it to the Scarborough Bluffs and spent the evening and much of the night chasing a fair to middling tropo opening that stretched down to New Jersey and yielded signals on otherwise local channels.
On the way home, I realized I had a quarter tank of gas. Enough to get home but not to try other tropo hotspots or, for that matter, use my car for much of anything. Since then, I have rarely let my gas tank fall below half-way after completing trips.
It was the final Summer of my Mother's life. She was visiting, and I remember we all sat under the car port; with a couple of neighbours.
August 18, 2021 11:32 am #21
markow202
I was in college and using my mothers car that day on the promise I pick her up from the Go Train station in north etobicoke at 430. I was listening to the radio in the car but dont remember the station. I noticed it was 445 and there is still no train. The radio then faded out and hit seek and it kept scanning not really catching much. 680 news worked full power and heard of the blackout.
The CN tower stations I remember them being weak and at times fading out. Then would come back full power only to fade out shortly after.
LOSat
I was at work and remember everyone exiting the building and getting on their cellphones. I called my mom to tell her not to worry about the power failure, and she wondered how I knew her power was out. She was more concerned when she learned it was as large as it was. I lived in a strange pocket of London where the power was out until Saturday morning. It was strange the lights came on, on the streets around me that evening (14th) and figured mine would be on soon only to continue to wait and wait. Had to move food from my freezer to my sisters place as it dragged on.
The Weed
I was at a friends house in East York when the power went out. Can't remember how we found out it wasn't just her house, but I left shortly after, trying to make my way across Toronto to a little bit south and west of Eglinton and the Humber River. While I knew a lot of side street backways home, so did a lot of other people. Patience was certainly a virtue. What sticks in my mind is how sunny and hot it was and how ordinary citizens were directing traffic and other people had given them bottled water. I'm also old enough to remember the blackout in the 60s, and how quiet and dark it was and how bright the stars were.
Just came across this. It's what happened during the first big blackout way back in Nov. 1965. I was a kid, but I remember the lights dimming at first while were watching a Laurel & Hardy movie on CFTO around 5 PM. They came back on once or twice then died altogether. And we were in the dark for a long time after that.
Here's what the networks did that night.

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Committee adds two more Unique Natural Areas
By Sally Young — Staff Writer
The Unique Natural Area committee of Tompkins County has proposed two new pieces of land to be added to the list of 192 that already cover 15,000 acres across the county.
A Unique Natural Area is a site with outstanding environmental qualities. The committee chooses already established sites across the county to include in its inventory. Designation as a unique natural area does not change the way a piece of land is run. The land can be either privately owned or open for public use, but UNA designation does not mean that a privately owned piece of land will be open to the public.
Stephen Nicholson, chair of the Environmental Management Council, said that a piece of land should be one of the best examples of these characteristics in Tompkins County.
"It's not just that it's open space. It has to have these characteristics and be relatively rare in the county," he said.
UNA site 154 is called the South Hill Swamp and is located on the South border of the Ithaca College campus. It runs behind the Kostrinsky Field for softball and goes over to the Circle Apartments, Nicholson said. He said he hopes the UNA inventory is useful to the community.
"The purpose is to inform the public and governments about how unique these acres are in the county and that they deserve special consideration," he said.
Hawthorn Orchard, one of the proposed new natural areas, was brought to the attention of the Unique Natural Area committee by the birding community, which recognized how many different species of birds are on the land.
One of the sites being proposed is an orchard located south of Mitchell Street behind the Cornell University tennis and equestrian center. According to local birders, it is a valuable birding area. It covers 50 acres in the town and City of Ithaca, including some Cornell University property. It is partially open to the public, with a recreational trail running through the middle.
The second is Salt Road Fen, which covers 74 acres in the Town of Groton on the corner of Old Stage Road and Salt Road. It is being considered because of its rare and scarce plant communities and its rich fen habitat.
The land was presented to the public at an informal hearing Oct. 16, and the Environmental Management Council will vote whether they want to include the new lands in the inventory during their November meeting.
Scott Doyle '98 is the senior planner of the Tompkins County Planning Department. He said the UNA inventory is an information tool at its core.
"They are helpful in situations for evaluating potential protection or if there's a development project that had some sort of impact on these areas," Doyle said. "It helps us get a better sense, from a planning perspective, for what's going on in those areas and plan accordingly to reduce the impact on a particular distinct plant or wildlife."
The Unique Natural Lands Inventory is a document that organizers aim to publish every 10 years. It began in 1973 and was most recently published in 2000. It is available to residents at any library in Tompkins County.
Chris Tessaglia-Hymes, a field application engineer in the bioacoustics research program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, said he fought to gain Hawthorn Orchard the recognition it needed to become a unique natural area.
Though being a unique natural area does not provide any legal protection, he said being included in the inventory may provide a layer of protection against future development of the area.
Many UNAs are located on private property and remain open only to the landowner.
"There's no regulations. If a landowner wants to clear cut his forest or dam up his bog, we can't stop him from doing it, but our hope is that, given the information, people will make wise choices and choose to develop somewhere else," Nicholson said. "Different organizations having a vested interest in an area because of its recognized importance gives that area a more solid foundation of protection."
There are two ways that a piece of land can be put up for consideration to become a UNA, according to Nicholson. Either a member of the public alerts them to the land, or a contractor hired by the Environmental Management Council finds it.
Nicholson said the Unique Natural Area inventory is specific to Tompkins County.
"Other environmental management councils across the state have created inventories of natural resources, but we're the only county that has had this project where we have specifically designated 192 areas in the county."
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As the nation's over-65 population grows, so does the number of LGBT seniors. Within 15 years, the US will have more than 3 million gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans seniors, according to the AARP, and these seniors have some particular needs, based not only on their orientation or gender identity but also on a lifetime of experiences and cultural messages that were sometimes dramatically different from their straight peers. To serve these seniors and their loved ones well, your organization can use the growing number of training tools designed specifically for LGBT senior caregivers. Many of these tools are free, which makes it easy to get started.
Why do elder service providers need LGBT training?
Family and partner policies should be inclusive and nondiscriminatory. For example, the National Resource Center on LGBT aging recommends ask all new clients about orientation, gender identity, and who they consider to be their family. Such a policy helps establish proper and preferred terms and avoids singling out presumed LGBT clients for such questions.
Other topics include client confidentiality, health care access, and respectful treatment by staff and fellow residents.
The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging offers a free 28-page booklet, "Inclusive Services for LGBT Older Adults: A Practical Guide to Creating Welcoming Agencies," that covers client intake policy, confidentiality, staff training, and inclusive marketing. The NRC provides additional free, detailed information on LGBT senior programming, healthcare access for LGBT seniors, and issues specific to LGBT seniors of color.
The NRC also offers online webinars and in-person trainings for service providers. Contact the NRC directly for details and cost.
Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, an LGBT advocacy group based in California, has produced a free 5-video online training series that covers the basics of creating an inclusive care practice. Topics include LGBT senior social and mental health concerns as well as inclusive policies and procedures. Pre- and post-course quizzes help you assess your understanding of the issues. The training also features downloadable documents your community can adapt and use, including an inclusivity checklist and a nondiscrimination statement.
The Transgender Law Center of Oakland offers information and support for trans people across the life span. Their downloadable brochure on working with transgender patients isn't specific to seniors, but it offers a quick list of key issues for care providers, including proper address, confidentiality, nondiscrimination policies, and additional resources.
Openhouse of San Francisco provides in-person training to Bay Area agencies and service providers on LGBT senior issues. The trainings include follow-up support.
Virtually every major city (and a number of smaller ones) has an LGBT community center that offers outreach programs for local groups and businesses. Contact your local LGBT center for information on local trainings, LGBT programming, and details on specific issues facing gay, lesbian, trans, and bi seniors in your community.
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The call for the 12th annual edition of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation's Sozopol Fiction Seminars is approaching, with five English-language and five Bulgarian-language fellows to be accepted from applicants that send their materials in by February 25. It's an incredible program in an incredible place, with everything paid except 50% of travel expenses.
This year's seminar is a creative writing edition titled "Writing About Immigration" and features guest lecturers, novelist Christopher Castellani and poet and writer Kapka Kassabova. Writer Andrew Cowan will be instructor for the English-language fellows while Virginia Zaharieva, author of the outstanding novel 9 Rabbits, will instruct the Bulgarians.
The seminars take place June 13-17 in Sozopol on the Black Sea as well as in Sofia.
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A series of top-flight games involving elite European teams across various football competitions will be aired live on GOtv during this week.
The games scheduled to hold from September 18th to September 22nd, will be broadcast live on SuperSport Select 2 (GOtv channel 32) to GOtv Plus and GOtv Max subscribers and on SuperSport Select 4 (GOtv channel 34) and 5 (GOtv channel 36) exclusive to GOtv Max subscribers.
At the peak of the pack is the match 'Day One' fixture of the 2019/2020 UEFA Champions League between German league champions, Bayern Munich, and Red Star Belgrade of Serbia. The game kicks off at 8pm on Wednesday and will be aired live on SuperSport Select 4.
Bayern, the five-time European champions, will be hoping to improve on their last season performance, after they were defeated by eventual champions, Liverpool. On the other hand, Red Star, the 1990/1991 European Cup winners, will want to better their record in the present format of the competition by advancing from the group stage.
GOtv's coverage of the European domestic leagues resume on Saturday when Manchester City, English champions, host Watford in a Premier League clash. The game will be broadcast on SuperSport Select 2 at 3pm.
Also on Saturday, Serie A champions Juventus, will welcome newly promoted Hellas Verona in a Serie A fixture, which airs live at 5pm on SuperSport Select 5.
The day's coverage will be completed with the broadcast of the Derby della Madonnina (Milan Derby) between AC Milan and Inter Milan, at the iconic San Siro. The encounter will be aired live at 7:45pm on SuperSport Select 5.
Manager Antonio Conte will hope that Inter Milan will continue their unbeaten run in the league and maintain top spot, while Marco Giampaolo of AC Milan will hope his misfiring strike force can clinch a much needed victory for their home fans.
On Sunday, London-based Crystal Palace will host Wolverhampton Wanderers at Selhurst Park in a Premier League fixture. The game, which begins at 2pm on SuperSport Select2, will see Wolves seeking to recover from the 2-5 loss to Chelsea last weekend.
A blockbuster also LaLiga fixture awaits on Sunday when Sevilla host Real Madrid at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium. The game kicks off at 8pm and is live on SuperSport Select 4.
Sevilla, the current table toppers, will hope to continue their impressive start to the season and inflict more pain on Real, who have struggled in the four games played so far. However, Los Blancos manager, Zinedine Zidane, will be encouraged by the return to fitness of star winger, Eden Hazard, and is expected to deploy him alongside Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema.
Active and disconnected GOtv customers, especially those on GOtv Plus, Value and Lite packages, can take advantage of the "Step Up" campaign when they upgrade to GOtv MAX by paying a reduced fee of N2, 500 and gain access to all the exclusive football and entertainment programmes on GOtv.
For more information on the unmatched football and the upcoming fixtures, visit www.supersport.com.
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