Then I got to the end and the article's purpose became clear:
"In the first presidential debate of the 2016 campaign Donald Trump said—correctly—that flying into U.S. airports often felt like flying into a third-world country. He vowed to spend $500 billion on infrastructure, including our airports. What ever happened to that promise?
The Atlanta fiasco exposes both the emptiness of that pledge and the extremely dangerous vulnerability of the world’s most heavily traveled airport network."
Better:
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If only we would have had $4 Trillion to spend on shovel ready projects to fix stuff like this...
They should have bussed everyone to hotels...They're going to wind up giving them all their money back anyway.
Committed terrorists are only limited by their imaginations.
“As chaos spreads nobody knows who turn to for information.”
Turn to yourself. Everybody makes fun of the redneck with the flashlight constantly by his side - until the lights go out.
The author is trying to be Tom Clancy ?
I suspect - if any true journalism out there still exists - that this blackout will be linked to GPC’s green power initiatives, what they refer to as “carbon-free baseload generation for the state of Georgia.”
Bottom line, we’re all underwriting the failures of GPC, not just GPC ratepayers.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/georgia-power-vogtle-nuclear-plant-hearings#gs.AQpf15I
The Atlanta fiasco exposes both the emptiness of that pledge...
I would point out to the petulant writer several things:
There are a lot of “in tune” folks here on FR but in the real world I’d be willing to say 70+% are ill prepared. And, that may be low. ;-)
Rah Rah. The power went out at the airport.
Airy just in time systems are so beautiful... and so fragile...
First hand report.
I was in KC yesterday leaving at 1230. Flight was cancelled at 6 PM and I was put on a flight to MSP where I was going to catch a midnight flight out of there to ATL.
Before leaving I asked about my checked bag - with medication in it. Was told it would automatically reroute. While waiting, I used the “track baggage” part of the Delta app and discovered that my bag was at MSP baggage claim. So I retrieved it, took it to ticketing, and checked it to Atlanta, then went back through security and boarded my new flight.
I arrived at MSP at 9 PM and found that my other flight had been cancelled and I was to go to another gate at 6 AM.
Slept on the floor at MSP because I was offered no other option, and at 5 AM I went to the gate and got a boarding pass that said my new flight was at 1 PM. I asked about my bag and they said it would be re-routed to the new flight.
So I sat down to wait - but I checked the app again to make sure. It said my bag was in storage at MSP. So I asked the agent and she called down and they said they would get it and bring it. I said - nah, I’ll go get it myself.
Went down there and found that the baggage services was closed. So who was she talking to? Waited until it opened around 6 and found my back in a locked storage room. This time, I took my meds out of it just in case it got “lost” again...
Then I took it to ticketing to check it and was told that the flight wasn’t leaving at 1, but at 630 AM. It seems that the boarding pass they gave me was for the previously delayed flight. They told me to run to security with it and said I could check it at the gate because I had to get there or I would miss the flight.
Arrived at TSA and was informed that my boarding pass was invalid. It was dated for the day before - because it was a delayed flight... They wouldn’t let me through because the boarding pass was expired - so I went *back* to ticketing to figure out what to do.
Once there, they were lost. They didn’t understand why I was given a boarding pass for the previous day and didn’t know what to do with me because in their eyes, it was my fault that I missed my flight. Apparently, I should not have gone back for my bag but should have just let it twist in the wind and hope it eventually got to Atlanta.
So - I’m sitting here in MSP right now on standby for a flight to Atlanta. I probably won’t leave until this afternoon even though I have been told twice that I was confirmed on a flight...
A: How can an airport as big as ATL not have adequate backup power systems - or any sort of contingency plan for a situation like this?
B: How can a company as big as Delta not have contingency plans for what they’re going to do if they lose ATL for an extended period?
C: Why would they issue boarding passes for the *previous* day knowing that as far as the TSA is concerned, it’s not a valid pass and if you go outside for *any* reason, you will not be allowed back through with that boarding pass?
D: If they’re going to issue a boarding pass for the previous day - shouldn’t they *tell* the customer that they did that and warn them not to go outside the security cordon?
It’s scary how little contingency planning there is in companies and airports as big as these. What are the rest of them like?
The real takeaway here is Democrat Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed, seen by some as a gubernatoriall candidate for the dims, did nothing to address the issue during his two terms as mayor.
Having lived and worked in Atlanta, I can say that the city is one big fiasco, likely because no one is ever held accountable and the local folks don’t want to risk highlighting themselves by taking initiative, as their fellow employees will resent and attack them for it.
It is suspicious, however, that earlier this year a critical section of Atlanta’s I-85 freeway was collapsed due to an unlikely fire, and now the airport and redundant power systems were also taken out of commission due to an unlikely fire. This is a large, unfriendly city. Not a place you want to be in the middle of a catastrophe.
The muzzies aren’t going to start a blackout. They prefer blood, body parts, things that go bang and people crying out in pain.
Ping.
Why don’t we wait for Trump’s first budget???
I’m more interested in how this fire started
It took several hours to out the fire out. Took many hours to restor service
Been watching videos in Youtube and they have a lot that covers this topic. This is one of them as to why there was a blackout at the airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wQM-wK8w0&t=117s