[House Atreides]

Hmmm...Brooklyn also.

[ThunderSleeps]

Not a good night for the electrical grid eh?

[blackdog]

Utility pole transformers have a 50 year life expectancy. 92% of those in service are 70 years old. The dielectric breakdown of a transformer is never slow or boring.

A lack of scheduled maintenance should not be a conspiracy theorists playground. This is entirely predictable. Mitsubishi has opened a plant to make them as fast as possible.

[logi_cal869]

My reaction too (Hmmmmm)...

Coupled with the widespread internet outage.

[jmacusa]

Happened here in Bricktown, NJ on The Jersey Shore on Christmas night around 7:50 pm. Some asshole took a cure on one of the local east/west country roads, slammed into a pole and the power when out for about and hour in my development. I'd say at least a hundred homes were without power. Stuff like this is always happening around my neck of the woods. Especially in the summer. The power goes off around here with a good talking to it seems.