Power cut hits Athens Acropolis
Fri Jul 16 2004 11:19:47 ET
The Athens Acropolis and two nearby city quarters were dogged by voltage drops and electricity cuts for more than an hour on Thursday, three days after a general power failure struck half of Greece.
The incidents have occurred a month before Athens hosts the August 13-29 Olympics.
"Power went on and off three or four times during the past hour, but the problem has been fixed now," an employee at the Acropolis museum told AFP on 16:20 pm (13H20 GMT).
The blackout was caused by a cut power line, a spokeswoman for Greece's electricity utility PPC said. Large parts of tourist quarters of Acropolis and Theission district were blacked out for as long as two hours.
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From what I understand, Greece is a thrid world country in a lot of respects and is known for electrical ups and downs. But what bothers me about this is that the lines were cut. My first thought is that contactors in an effort to complete some of the Olympic work, which is still running behind schedule, may be cutting corners and in the process they cut the lines. My second thought is that the probing continues.
From what I understand, Greece is a thrid world country in a lot of respects and is known for electrical ups and downs. But what bothers me about this is that the lines were cut. My first thought is that contactors in an effort to complete some of the Olympic work, which is still running behind schedule, may be cutting corners and in the process they cut the lines. My second thought is that the probing continues.
Sorry about the double post. System is running slow and in haste I hit the return twice.