Posted on 01/07/2009 10:26:49 AM PST by Red Steel
POSTED: 5:29 am HST January 5, 2009 UPDATED: 9:20 am HST January 5, 2009
Gabbard Wants Answers On Cause, Length Of Outage
HONOLULU -- Some powerful state senators are seeking an explanation for why the power went out the day after Christmas and why it took so long to restore it.
The chairman of the Senate committee on energy and environment announced Sunday he'll hold a hearing later this month to look into the power outage.
Parts of Oahu were without electricity all night Dec. 26 and into the next day.
On Sunday, Sen. Mike Gabbard called a news conference at the Capitol to announce what he called an "informational briefing" to be held Jan. 14.
"The purpose of the briefing will be to investigate the causes of the recent outage of power here on Oahu Dec. 26, which left the entire island without power. We'll also be focusing on the reason for the delay in restoring the power and possible solutions," he said.
Local businesses will testify about how much money they lost because of the outage.
Win Schoneman runs an ice cream store in Hawaii Kai and he said the length of the outage hurt his business, Bubbies Ice Cream.
"The additional eight hours of loss of power caused all my ice cream to melt, which cost me at least $4,000," he said.
Hawaiian Electric officials said they are gathering information and preparing for reports on the incident.
"Whenever we have a situation like this one, we do complete a thorough investigation and we report to the PUC regulators and Legislature as soon as we can," Hawaiian Electric Co. spokesman Peter Rosegg said. "So we look forward to briefing and have the information to share with you."
State lawmakers will look at whether new policies or regulations should be enacted to help assure that power comes back on more quickly next time.
Hawaiian Electric officials said they will present their preliminary findings to the PUC by the end of the week. Then they'll testify at the legislative hearing the following week.
Hmmmmmmmmm. No one knows?
The blackout covered for criminal acts to take place?
“State lawmakers will look at whether new policies or regulations should be enacted to help assure that power comes back on more quickly next time.”
New policies or regulations. That’s key, I say, KEY.
OK... so I have my tin foil hat on....
Is this the city where those vaulted copies of birth records are kept?
And the only who had a match to see his birth certificate by was Hussein.
“New policies or regulations. That’s key, I say, KEY.”
It will only work if it has all the proper signatures and stamps from all involved bureaucracies.
I was going to ask if anyone knows if there are any old hospitals on the island that were there in the early sixties?
BINGO
I can’t find the AP article, but the same thing was brought up in New Hampshire after their recent ice storm... penalize the utility for not getting the service back online.
As most know, they had service people from many states and from Canada there within hours... working well into the dark.
And, of course, the utility replied (PSNH?), if the service is not on, we aren’t making any money (paraphrasing).
Makes sense, doesn’t it?
[one article I read related that some service wasn’t able to be restored due to ‘miscreants’ ‘stealing’ the downed wires. It was found behind their house... just keeping it safe, y’know]
I replaced your question mark with the appropriate punctuation.
A vault needed to be opened without alarms going off, security devices had to be bypassed and plausable deniability had to be established.
Hawaii just entered the November 23rd Dallas club.
Film at 11 ............
January, 2059
The power crews that came to N H did a great job restoring power here they should be commended. With the amount of damage done we should still be in the dark. And what do the politician do start whining.
The answer to that would be to have emergency electrical generators where necessary to save foods such as supermarkets, ice cream shops, restaurants, etc.
I suspect, though, they may have laws one cannot have electrical generators within the city limits because of noise, etc. Hospitals and other emergency care areas would be the exception.
Panama had that law until Noriega stepped up to power and enough brave souls were climbing electrical power line towers and blowing them up…OOOOPSEEEE…no electricity.
The law has never been rescinded, although we have good electrical service. Electrical generators are only used today during an outage, which is rare.
P.S.
Now that I am giving it further thought, in Panama it was not so much noise abatement. The electric company didn’t want competition.
Noise was a secondary factor.
“The power crews that came to N H did a great job restoring power here they should be commended. With the amount of damage done we should still be in the dark. And what do the politician do start whining.”
I agree and that’s regardless of where the storm occurs. While not back East for the latest storm, those folk work through the worst weather and conditions. They come from many states and countries.
As you stated, in return, what do some politicians do? They soil themselves (and their constituents) by their (re)actions. (too many out of staters may have polluted the pool, more chlorine is needed)
Of course, I should commend the State and most of the elected Reps, since in NH, they work for a paltry $100 per year (as I recall, it may have increased).
I was hoping it was a patriotic dissent action against Obama.
Probably salt corrosion.
I have yet to hear of another scenario and that is it was done covertly by the Secret Service because they had some credible evidence there was going to be an assassination attempt and being that they did it to control the situational awareness factor.
Kennedy’s assasination.
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