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[Noel7]

Thanks @Drythe

It seems slim to me, too. Any one of them going down would be major.

[Noel7]

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@sueinsf wrote:

I lost power this morning and it was quite the job getting to work with all the traffic lights out, but they were on when I got about 90% there and my office has had power.  I saw that 15,000 of 95,000 had power restored and hope I have it back when I get home!!

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Hi @sueinsf

The local news showed photos of Market street looking like a parking lot, bumper to bumper, at a standstill. 

I hope your lights are back on when you get home!

[Lucky Charm]

I do know that Con Edison is having their 'outage' season right now and it goes straight through till June (?).

An outage is a planned period of time, when they work on different units, lots of contractors helping, 12 hour shifts, etc. 

It's for upkeep purposes. 

They call it a 'shutdown' or 'turnaround' in oil refineries.

Not sure if the power plants in CA are doing theirs. 

[Drythe]

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@Noel7 wrote:

Thanks @Drythe

It seems slim to me, too. Any one of them going down would be major.

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@Noel7 &

 @Poodlepet2

Yes, it certainly would be major.

Seems to me that more redundancy could significantly limit the damage.

Perhaps should have been dealt with.

[LTT1]

@Noel7

Finally some reports on twitter:

https://www.inverse.com/article/30631-lax-sf-ny-power-outages

[RoughDraft]

Do we sit and theorize if it's a conspiracy or a dilapidated infrastructure?  I'm going with dilapidated infrastructure.  It seems that at least once a month (usually Friday), our commuter trains would have an explosion in their generator stations or we would suffer a blackout at dinner time.  

[Noel7]

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@LTT1 wrote:

@Noel7

Finally some reports on twitter:

https://www.inverse.com/article/30631-lax-sf-ny-power-outages

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THANK YOU @LTT1

There's a lot of information and a good map and pix there!

[Brooklynny]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I do know that Con Edison is having their 'outage' season right now and it goes straight through till June (?).

An outage is a planned period of time, when they work on different units, lots of contractors helping, 12 hour shifts, etc. 

It's for upkeep purposes. 

They call it a 'shutdown' or 'turnaround' in oil refineries.

Not sure if the power plants in CA are doing theirs. 

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@Lucky Charm, the outage was not due to "outage season."  Apparently, a feeder cable under the street supplying power to the subway signal system failed this morning.  Crews are still working on it and will probably do so through the night. Train traffic is bypassing the station where the outage occurred, but everything is back up and running with some delays.  As I said in an earlier post, just another commuting day in NYC.

[Lucky Charm]

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@Brooklynny wrote:

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I do know that Con Edison is having their 'outage' season right now and it goes straight through till June (?).

An outage is a planned period of time, when they work on different units, lots of contractors helping, 12 hour shifts, etc. 

It's for upkeep purposes. 

They call it a 'shutdown' or 'turnaround' in oil refineries.

Not sure if the power plants in CA are doing theirs. 

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@Lucky Charm, the outage was not due to "outage season."  Apparently, a feeder cable under the street supplying power to the subway signal system failed this morning.  Crews are still working on it and will probably do so through the night. Train traffic is bypassing the station where the outage occurred, but everything is back up and running with some delays.  As I said in an earlier post, just another commuting day in NYC.

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I hear ya.  Son sits in that nightmare every evening.  He works in Manhattan (@ Con Ed).

[noodleann]

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@Noel7 wrote:

Major power outage in SF, Manhattan & supposedly LA

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This sounds like a test run to me.

Just wait until it happens in July/August, when the the A/Cs are running full tilt and the subways are unbearable without cooling. Not pretty.