Still on the grid here in Tampa Bay...for now...
I am wondering if this is a test for what's in store under our Green Governor Crist. We can have rolling blackouts just like his awesome buddy Ahnold in California.
Posted on 02/26/2008 10:37:27 AM PST by Fawn
Florida Power & Light is reporting massive power outages throughout South Florida, including Miami, Doral, Westchester, and Pembroke Pines. Reports of outages extended into Palm Beach, an FPL spokeswoman said.
The company said it was investigating the problem.
Yeah..I hate that too...I have a bunch to set.... they are reporting all kinds of serious traffic backups and some accidents.....Port of Miami OUT of power....
Tampa Bay is out of power now
I wonder if the transmission line failure is the result of hackers getting into the computer control system?
Voter suppression!
Cascading power failures can eventually spread out of state unless wise operators cut the transmission lines.
It sounds like Florida is in the midst of that right now.
It would be better for all of Florida to go dark than to allow it to spread throughout the entire eastern grid.
It was one of those oil drilling rigs off the coast that cut the electric transmission lines.
Buy a wind up clock, LOL
Naples is hit too...lol.....boy does that grid jump the state!
Still on the grid here in Tampa Bay...for now...
I am wondering if this is a test for what's in store under our Green Governor Crist. We can have rolling blackouts just like his awesome buddy Ahnold in California.
They were almost laughing on the local news coverage I’m listening too saying “NO, it’s not a terrorist attack”...as if that’s funny!? That’s the first thing I thought of....
You mean...Florida has been buying electricity from Cuba?
Good point....i wouldn’t doubt it!!
Try using the John at work with no power. Pitch black . . .
Lights back up now.
COOL....tornado warning in Broward county.....
I just heard that Apollo Beach (east Tampa Bay) was out for 2.5 hours. They have TECO, not FPL.
Street lights are out in the area.
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It’s more complex than I can begin to understand, but each state is different with smaller subgrids of power lines making up the larger one.
When one gets knocked off, it causes the others to become unstable trying to compensate, and when it starts cascading to adjacent areas, it’s hard to stop.
You have to sever the connection or it’s like a virus that will spread. And it’s hard to get them all back up again. It require finesse at the power generating stations to bring them back up where they are synchronized. It’s way more complicated than simply turning an ignition switch on.
A lot of coordination is involved.
Fox Radio News just speculated that the storms in Georgia might be the cause. WTG, Lisa Brady ... didja sleep through Geography?
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