Copenahen Grinds To Halt (Power Outage)

Ananova ^ | 9-23-2003

[blam]

Copenhagen grinds to halt

The Danish capital has ground to a halt after a power cut struck the city and parts of neighbouring Sweden.

Traffic signals and lights in offices, shops and homes in Copenhagen went out as the city of 1.8 million lost electricity.

Power is also out in southern Sweden, said Stieg Claesson, a spokesman for power company Sydkraft. Nearly 2 million Swedes did not have electricity, including the subway in the capital, Stockholm, which shut down for 30 minutes.

Power officials said a main transmission line connecting Sweden and Denmark had broken down. Police didn't suspect sabotage.

Sture Larsson, technical director of the Swedish National Grid said workers are trying to restore power.

"We are about to reconnect the electricity from the national grid to the local and regional network," he said, adding that customers should expect to have electricity resumed during the afternoon.

Traffic was gridlocked in the city centre and trains running along Denmark's new driverless subway system came to a stop.

The capital's widespread commuter rail system also came to stop and hospitals were running on back-up generators.

© Associated Press

Story filed: 13:46 Tuesday 23rd September 2003

[Cobra64]

"It's all George Bush's fault." Ted Kennedy told me so.

[Chewbacca]

Electric trains suck when the power goes out.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

AP-sourced story here:

Millions Without Power in Denmark, Sweden

[CFW]

CFW adjusts tinfoil hat....

[Major_Risktaker]

That "NO VOTE" for the Euro came back to haunt them.

[TRY ONE]

"Electric trains suck when the power goes out."

And so does Capital Punishment, visa via the Electric Chair!
There's nothing worse than having "Ol Sparky" lit off and ready to go --- then the power goes off!

That's why here is Texas we use Lethal Injection! We can do that by a flash light.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

CFW adjusts tinfoil hat....

Then you should enjoy the coincidence with this thread from yesterday.

Denmark plans religious crackdown, seen targeting Islam

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

As I'd said in the other thread linked above, maybe the Danes and the Swedes could use some help from the Norwegians?

[Chewbacca]

Washington State still has death by hanging on their books.

Rope is cheap.

[Ringman]

Okay they claim to have the reason for the blackout pinned down.

Apparantly the third reactor at the Oscarshamn (Sweden) nuclear plant fell out of production which caused a 1200MW reduction in power production.

Supposedly heavy storms in southern Sweden caused a problem in another part of the grid which caused the 3:rd and 4:th reactors at Ringhals (also sweden) to disconnect.

A loss of a total of 3000MW (or 20% of the total production here in sweden) caused most of the grid in southern Sweden and Denmark to fail = 4 million people with no electricity.

[70times7]

...Hardest hit is the manufacturing plant that produces the letter "g" where production has ground to a halt. Plant officials indicated that "h" would be substituted in the interim.

[TRY ONE]

"Washington State still has death by hanging on their books. Rope is cheap."

Good! I'll voluneer to hold the lantern!

[TomGuy]

Largest blackout in US history in NE.
Blackout in eastern Canada.
Blackout in London, England
Blackout in Sweden, Denmark.

No, no pattern. No connection. Certainly not terrorism.