http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php All comments for BREAKING NEWS: ERCOT Announces Rotating Blackouts en-us 2009 austin_allen Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:56:07 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss allen@escapeest.com allen@escapeest.com 60 http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php#comment-226532 http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php#comment-226532 Comments Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:43:05 -0600 <p>it's kind of hard to use electricity whenever there isn't any coming out of your outlets.</p> http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php#comment-226528 http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php#comment-226528 Comments Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:29:21 -0600 <p>haha, like anyone is actually going to use less electricity because of this.</p> http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php#comment-226527 http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php#comment-226527 Comments Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:09:06 -0600 <p>KEYE says the load shedding is now over.</p> http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php#comment-226526 http://austinist.com/2006/04/17/breaking_news_ercot_announces_rotating_blackouts.php#comment-226526 Comments Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:04:04 -0600 <p>I don't know about the "rolling" part. My power was out the whole time down here in 78704. Maybe they just thought us hippies/hipsters would be too stoned to notice. The outages did start at almost exactly 4:20 didnt they? In other breaking news myspace.com is inundated by sudden the rush of activity surrounding the restoration of internet service to the greater austin area. Unfortunately the website is still available and, no you dont have any new friend requests. -mf</p>