The word I heard locally is that they had a ton of servers plugged into normal power, not UPS backed by a generator power, and had a power outage that took all those servers down.
This is what happens when you let computer techie types run the old-school basic infrastructure, is my take. Stick to your OS updates, guys, and hire someone who understand electrical and mechanical systems.
Watch TV in the dark.
I won’t do anything. Our generators come on when the power goes out.
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During the warmer months it will be tough. Back in the days before electricity, houses were built with large screened windows. High ceilings and often with at least two feet under the house for breezes to move.
Eventually people will adapt but in the house I live in now, brick with double pane windows, the Summers will be awful. I could get by just fine in the Winter tho.
Inside sources (anonymous of course) told me that they had a fire start in the UPS batteries, leading to an EPO - emergency power off situation.
The power failure was not from Ga Power, and not really from internal switch gear, but rather following fire procedures.
the problem of course is they didn’t have a hot fail over ready for that contingency.
Right. That Delta outage caused me to ponder the worst - which is some kind of EMP attack to shut us down for months, if not years. Precautions should be taken.
Reliance on FEMA is not a strategy.
‘...what it called a power outage...’
Hard to believe. Companies like Delta have backup power and detailed disaster recovery procedures. For my $ I think they got hacked and dont want to admit it.
As you all know, it only takes a momentary interruption of power to dump your computer or TV. Happens here in Tucson all the time during our Monsoon, usually at a critical moment in a sporting event that I’m watching on TV.
Gosh if only we had a fre %trillion dollars socked away for “shovel ready” projects to fix things like our aging roads and bridges and electrical grid...
OMG, all those urban dwellers will go nuts. Stores will be looted, buildings will burn, gasoline pumps won’t work, water pressure will be lost, no commo, its going to be a real mess. Law and order, forgetaboutit, it will become the law of the jungle. I’m talking about one week, not one day.
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.
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.
Light candles. Purify water. Burn wood.
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.