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Title: Car hits pole, 14,000 loose power in 100's heat Post by: patric on August 10, 2007, 12:05:19 am If this doesnt demonstrate the need for buried power lines I doubt anything will. People were being bussed to the homeless shelter downtown in today's triple-digit heat.
"PSO says power has been restored to all but a handful of customers. Their latest numbers show up to 14,000 customers were affected at the blackout's peak." http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=133480 http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c4019859-a93b-4de3-85db-6197a8fa37db Title: Car hits pole, 14,000 loose power in 100's heat Post by: Rowdy on August 10, 2007, 02:55:16 am It's not like there has been a substantial increase in power pole hits over the years and that explains the reasoning to bury our lines. This sort of stuff has been going on for many years since we have had the existence of utility poles.
One would think that there would be less of these accidents due to the fact you can no longer drink and drive like yesteryear. Title: Car hits pole, 14,000 loose power in 100's heat Post by: Wilbur on August 10, 2007, 05:32:12 am You know, when a bulb goes out on my Christmas tree, the rest still stay lit! It's new technology!
Title: Car hits pole, 14,000 loose power in 100's heat Post by: BKDotCom on August 10, 2007, 06:42:19 am quote:Using that analogy... The entire city/county/state/etc didn't go black. It was constrained to the area around the pole. Title: Car hits pole, 14,000 loose power in 100's heat Post by: sgrizzle on August 10, 2007, 07:12:03 am Pic I took last night. The Crane is getting ready to lift up the replacement poll which is laying in the center median.
(http://www.wickermonkey.com/stormrecovery.jpg) Title: Car hits pole, 14,000 loose power in 100's heat Post by: Wilbur on August 10, 2007, 08:36:59 am quote: No, it was not. It knocked out power all the way to the river, including all the traffic lights around ORU, which caused huge problems for those of us working around the PGA. The hotel at 71st and Lewis was without power for a while and the police station at 75th and Riverside was without power. None of those are "constrained to the area around the pole" which was near 76th and Memorial. Title: Car hits pole, 14,000 loose power in 100's heat Post by: sgrizzle on August 10, 2007, 09:47:12 am The problem is that this wasn't a lightbulb kinda outage, this was a cat-chewing the line kinda outage.
Title: Car hits pole, 14,000 loose power in 100's heat Post by: iplaw on August 10, 2007, 10:18:36 am quote:(http://media.canada.com/a0f01263-155b-494b-a5a0-9e1390560ff6/cv-eddie.jpg) "If that cat had nine lives - it just spent 'em all." |