Florida ATOT posters in distress

[lozina]

http://cbs2.com/national/FPL.p...ctricity.2.663086.html

No neffing for you Floridians!

A massive power outage struck Central and South Florida today, with power reported out from Orlando to Miami, police said. The outage struck about 1:25 p.m., shortly after rainstorms passed through the region

 

[FoBoT]

cnn says over 4 millions without electrons

 

[lozina]

Although one of my friends just called me from there says his power is back on now. was out for about 45 minutes

anyone in the Northeast remember that big blackout a couple years ago? Man that was a mess... you really take those electrons for granted until they stop flowing

 

[Jhill]

I bet the birth rate there jumps dramatically in 9 months.

 

[Perknose]

Miami-Dade Public Schools said schools have been locked-down, meaning children will be kept in their classrooms and parents will not be allowed to pick them up.

:shocked:

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: Jhill
I bet the birth rate there jumps dramatically in 9 months.

Doesn't the human body become rather incapable of reproduction after a certain ripe age?

 

[mrCide]

we're doing ok mainly, looks like all my company facilities are up (or atleast on battery but i doubt theyd be up for an hour+), cept for one. my home machine is up too so i didnt lose power at home.

ah well. (reporting from sr7 and commercial blvd!)

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Jhill
I bet the birth rate there jumps dramatically in 9 months.

sarcasm?

snopes link

 

[SirStev0]

apparently it is running from Miami north to Tampa and all the way north east to Jacksonville ...

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Miami-Dade Public Schools said schools have been locked-down, meaning children will be kept in their classrooms and parents will not be allowed to pick them up.

:shocked:

False info. I am in S. Florida right now and I work for Broward School District Office. Check this out from our Sun Sentinal newspaper:

Sun-Sentinal

In Miami-Dade County, students were being held at schools for safety reasons due to large numbers of traffic signals being out due to power failures, said Quintin Taylor, media relations specialist for Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

Students were only being released to the care of a parent or guardian, he said. All school transportation was suspended due to the non-functional traffic lights, he said.

Unfortunately, I think my place is without power so I can look forward to a boring night when I get off work.

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: Jhill
I bet the birth rate there jumps dramatically in 9 months.

sarcasm?

snopes link

there was a mini baby boom in san francisco 9 months after the 1989 earthquake so snopes can stuff it.

 

[Danman]

My colleague's house in Kissimmee is out of power up here in central part of Florida. I'm okay here in Orlando. From what I heard, it's a cascading power outage.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Repoxy?

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2159259&enterthread=y

Power was out here from 1:15 till 2:30. TECO fixed it pretty quick.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Jhill
I bet the birth rate there jumps dramatically in 9 months.

Nah, everyone knows that old people don't fuck.

 

[Ryan]

All clear in the panhandle

 

[Xavier434]

I just got this notice from the school district:

- At 1:09pm today, a massive equipment failure took place at one of FPL's substations in Miami-Dade County. In accordance with FPL's safety and security procedures, it tripped the system and caused widespread outages across much of FPL's system and elsewhere in Florida.

- At the height of the outage event, approximately 700,000 customers were without service. As of 2:30pm, approximately 200,000 FPL customers remain without electric service as FPL works to make sure power plant generation is available to serve customer load requirements.

- FPL estimates that almost all customers still without power should be restored by 4:45pm, with the remainder of customers still without power restored by 6pm.

This sounds like it will end much better than what I initially anticipated.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Huh, if this was all in Miami I wonder what killed the power in a (very small) area of Tampa...

 

[Carbo]

I'm in the middle of this alleged chaos in the Fort Lauderdale area. Had I not read anything here I wouldn't have known there is a power outage. Full power ahead. AC blowin', fridge crankin' out cold beers. What's the problem?? There ain't no stinkin' power outage.

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: Carbo
I'm in the middle of this alleged chaos in the Fort Lauderdale area. Had I not read anything here I wouldn't have known there is a power outage. Full power ahead. AC blowin', fridge crankin' out cold beers. What's the problem?? There ain't no stinkin' power outage.

can i come over for some beers?

 

[Xavier434]

btw, the reason for the outage was determined to be a Nuclear Power plant in South Miami being shut down for safety reasons. We do not know what those reasons are.

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
btw, the reason for the outage was determined to be a Nuclear Power plant in South Miami being shut down for safety reasons. We do not know what those reasons are.

That seems pretty unlikely unless the utility down there is idiotic, utilities are required to ave spinning reserve equal to their largest unit. Nuclear plants and coal plants shut down every down on a daily basis and don't cause blackouts unless someone REALLY REALLY screwed up. Especially not with this weather, maybe on a 105 degree day in the summer, but the load right now shouldn't be stressing anyone.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
btw, the reason for the outage was determined to be a Nuclear Power plant in South Miami being shut down for safety reasons. We do not know what those reasons are.

SCRAM?

:Q

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: Xavier434
btw, the reason for the outage was determined to be a Nuclear Power plant in South Miami being shut down for safety reasons. We do not know what those reasons are.

SCRAM?

:Q

A nuclear plant SCRAMs every week somewhere in the USA, its not a big deal when it happens...

EDIT: man FPL fucked up big if they let this cause a blackout although Florida is in a bad situation somewhat because they have poor grid connections to the rest of the USA since it can only go through the narrow corridor from one direction isntead of being surrounded by other utilities like other parts of the country.

EDIT2: sounds from the article that it isn't clear whether the nuclear plant SCRAM caused the grid disturbance or that the grid disturbance was caused by the storms and is what tripped the units offline to begin with.

 

[allisolm]

This is what the storms did in Tallahasse late this morning. next door to me

I live immediately to the right of this pic. The dirt/root chunk is 6 ft tall. Had 2 firetrucks, utility co. and tv news. My power and internet is fine. Hers next door, not so much. You can see her power line at the right of the pic going down under the tree.

 

[dbk]

Yeah, I was watching the live footage on MSNBC. It was a huge intersection with everyone squeezing by. Where are the traffic cops?