The sky is falling - Thoughts on FL power outages?

reberly
reberly Posts: 173
edited February 2008 in The Clubhouse
What does everyone think about the massive power outage in FL since 1109 today? We must have an expert in here somewhere that can give us some thoughts.

Possibly Chinese Hackers got the power grid? No that was probably just a movie I saw.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2008
    Probably the same thing that usually causes these things - all of these plants are at 98% capacity. When one dies (these things happen), it tries to pass the load off to another one, which gets overloaded and dies, and you have a domino effect.

    Or, if you saw the Sarah Connor chronicles last night, maybe Cameron jammed her hand into one of the turbines so she could break into the police station :)
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited February 2008
    Not to worry, the guy from 24 has the power grid schematic downloaded to his cell phone and is fixing the problem. Everybody down!!!!!!!!!!
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  • reberly
    reberly Posts: 173
    edited February 2008
    I love watching CNN on stories such as these. They can cover this for 5 hours and not have a single shread of news but just keep talking and hypothisizing over scenarios.
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited February 2008
    the matrix has you. the humans have shut down the power grid to get into the architect's main building.

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2008
    It's George Bush's fault. (and his brother as well)
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited February 2008
    I did not notice it until someone in our building said we were working on generator power. It is going to be a fun commute tonight. Not as fun though with no power and downed trees, poles, boats in the road...
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited February 2008
    It's probably a raccoon or something that grounded out a power transformer at a sub station which has the capability to bring down multiple grids from just the surge alone. The length of time power is out depends on how easily the part that blew up is replaceable.

    Just be glad it happened in Florida where the weather is pretty nice. If it happened up here in the northeast, they'd have a death count going by now. The power will be back up. Just gotta sit it out and wait. Speculation with no facts just breeds fear and since the news is just a bunch of fear-mongers anymore, it's probably good that the poor people in Florida can't get the news right now.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2008
    Newsflash!

    We just sold South FL to Cuba for several trillion dollars to help reduce the debt...the communist are now running everything. Everybody in S FL now has the same thing....NOTHING! :cool:

    actually:
    MIAMI - A nuclear reactor owned by Florida's largest electric company automatically shut down Tuesday, causing sporadic power outages throughout the state that affected 3 million people. Authorities did not specify the cause of the shutdown but say there were no safety concerns.
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  • reberly
    reberly Posts: 173
    edited February 2008
    shack you should replace the talking head on CNN. Your scenarios are much funnier.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited February 2008
    I don't really care.
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited February 2008
    Demiurge wrote: »
    I don't really care.

    I do.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited February 2008
    Clearly, it's the ARMAGEDDON!!!
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited February 2008
    All the electronic voting machines have been reset to vote for one specific candidate. Trust me on this.

    Or maybe someone playing around that decoder-thingy in the movie "Sneakers" and accidentally shut off the juice to FL.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited February 2008
    venomclan wrote: »
    I do.

    That's awesome. After that, I still don't care, those are my thoughts. :)
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited February 2008
    Power is fine here (Biddeford, ME)...

    ::lights on, lights off, lights on, lights off::

    Sarah Connor Chronicles was pretty cool last night wasn't it. Next week is the 2 hour season finale? Why over soon :( Very disappointing...

    ::lights on, lights off, lights on, lights off::
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited February 2008
    Standing by to run a large 500kw generator, keeping us online.

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2008
    Airplay355 wrote: »
    Sarah Connor Chronicles was pretty cool last night wasn't it. Next week is the 2 hour season finale? Why over soon :( Very disappointing...

    Writer's strike. Sure it's over but it'll still be a couple months before they can write and produce more stuff, so most series are just being cut short.
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited February 2008
    no troubles here:o i;m in palm beach county
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited February 2008
    What happened to the backup bunny? I thought the bunny was supposed to kick in when the hampsters quit running?


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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited February 2008
    Demiurge wrote: »
    That's awesome. After that, I still don't care, those are my thoughts. :)

    Ok, Noted for when Wisconsin goes down, I won't care either.
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited February 2008
    Wisconsin? Where's that?
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2008
    Airplay355 wrote:
    Wisconsin? Where's that?

    It's a suburb of Canada.....
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited February 2008
    It's all a conspiracy I say, it's all a conspiracy.

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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2008
    shack wrote: »
    It's a suburb of Canada.....
    Nope but we will gladly take there NFL team.We need one up in these parts.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2008
    It must be pretty bad when even Canada doesn't want Wisconsin.
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  • duonggiahuy
    duonggiahuy Posts: 1
    edited February 2008
    Thanks bro
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  • Bill Ayotte
    Bill Ayotte Posts: 1,860
    edited February 2008
    duonggiahuy wrote: »
    Thanks bro

    Huh?

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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited February 2008
    I have to admit I was a bit alarmed at first. Especially after yesterday's airport arrest.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,195
    edited February 2008
    This is what happens when Florida pisses the Polk gods off.

    Be careful next time. ;)
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  • CAvolleyballguy
    CAvolleyballguy Posts: 156
    edited February 2008
    with an airport arrest yesterday and a power outage today, clearly Denzel washington has just teleported back through time exactly 4days and 12 hours to apprehend the airport suspect before committing his violent act.

    That new top secret Snow White program is Awesome. if you dont mind the power outtages.
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