holy crap. big, big, big power outtages all over the place. nyc and detroit are reportedly without power. apparently not terrorism. i’m in west michigan and the power is still on here, but the outtages are as close as lansing.

pssst. hey! yeah, you news.google. entire cities are without power. you might want to update your home page, people are reporting it. update: o.k. at 5:20 eastern it’s up on the front page. so it only took at least 45 minutes for it to make it the front page.

update:michigan public radio reported that apparently the niagara mohawk power grid is overloaded; i can’t verify who reported this because the radio station went off the air again.