Posted on 08/15/2016 9:04:51 AM PDT by bananaman22
Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle.
Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Delta’s court, saying that “other Georgia Power customers were not affected”, and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.
Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go out—everywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?
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And you will be a target for starving bands of people as your house will be the only one lit up.
Hard to get gas out of electric pumps and credit cards don’t work.
Country folk will figure out to dismantle the pumps but BLMs in the cities will set all the stations on fire.
Of interest.
Imagine very safe, 50-100 megawatt MSR's built closer to cities so they provide power without having to run thousands of miles of long-distance power lines. And these small MSR's could be built on assembly lines like we assemble diesel-electric locomotives. Just that could make it possible to do even more amazing things like generate enough power to purify seawater on a truly massive scale, turning hundreds of millions of acres/hectares of now arid desert into arable farmland. The now-literal dirt-poor countries of the Sahara region of Africa could suddenly become fabulously rich as their deserts suddenly bloom in large scale farming from fresh water processed through desalinization.
I’m worried about bullet shortages!
I’m worried about bullet shortages!
given what we have seen recently, overnight power outages in “urban” areas will lead to unprecedented rioting and looting, as well as specific targeting of whites.
Business continuity should be looked at as an insurance expense. Delta failed to pay their premiums, and paid the price.
I have 12KW solar cells on the roof, 3300 amps of battery storage for 20 hours which means I can use the battery for a week and a half before I worry about it. I have a natural gas 16KW gen to charge the battery and a 6KW backup gasoline generator.
I’m old and I really like my A/C, I don’t plan to be without it just because of a grid failure.
I know DC has really neglected it, but I thought state governments (the Red States) started taking action in hardening the electronic infrastructure in their area to prevent such.
“How much fuel have you on hand?”
We’ve got enough to last a long time. Not unusual around here.
LOL! What a clown show!
Bingo. They haven't been the only airline to have "problems" lately. It's building up to a failure of massive proportions very soon. 9/11 will pale when hundreds or thousands of planes crash or are forced to land on any stretch of road or farmer's field they can find.
Even if not a single plane crashes, think of the amount of personal and corporate info stolen.
“And you will be a target for starving bands of people as your house will be the only one lit up.”
This says more about where you live than it says about where I live.
The scenario in Blueflag’s #7 sounds plausible too.
Light candles. Purify water. Burn wood.
Heaven forbid no Starbucks and no zillion selfies with pouty lips showing just how their widdle feelers have been hurt. Safe places will be over run and there won’t be enough green crayons for everyone. And someone won’t get their piece of pie.
In early October, 1995, Hurricane Opal hit the Florida Panhandle. There have been stronger hurricanes hit this area but for some reason, this one really knocked out the power, just about everywhere.
It stayed out here for around two weeks. Things could have been worse. It was still very hot but not like July. Most emergency services were still operating. There were areas within easy driving range where you could gas up.
Some of the major superstores came back on fairly quickly using their emergency power.
Still having no power at home became really tough. I had to check on my 85 year old Father every day and was surprised how well he stood up. Daddy had a 6000 watt generator which he had hooked up years earlier and it did provide him with water but not much else except refrigerator.
I remember how happy I was when the power came back on.
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