Power Problem?

cessna152

Golden Member
Feb 10, 2002
1,009
0
0
Weren't they supposed to fix this power problem? So that it would not cascade down the eastern coast.... Thank god it stopped before it hit central NJ. Kinda scary how fast it hit and what its doing. Cell sites were totally overloaded and I was just able to get online right now.
 

FoBoT

No Lifer
Apr 30, 2001
63,084
15
81
fobot.com
it is supposed to work that way

it protects the grid

this way, they can turn stuff back on in a matter of hours, if they let it crash instead of shutting it down, they would have to spend days fixing all of the sub-stations/transformers that would have blown as the grid crashed

it is a "feature"
 

Spikey217

Golden Member
May 4, 2002
1,687
0
76
I am stuck in the blackout on my last 20 minutes of laptop battery neffing on ATOT. The boredom is insane. Absolutley nothing to do.