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Massive power outage hits Florida
Feb 26, 2008, 21:08 GMT
Washington - Hundreds of thousands of people were without electricity across Florida Tuesday after eight power plants went offline, authorities said.
Between 600,000 and 800,000 households had no electricity at the height of the crisis Tuesday afternoon, though power was slowly being restored, Karen Vissepo of Florida Power and Light told broadcaster CNN. Media reports said the outage could have affected as many as 4 million people.
The outage affected traffic lights, Miami's International Airport, air conditioning units and trapped people in elevators. Authorities said some kind of grid disturbance likely caused the power plants to shut down - sparking rolling blackouts - but could not yet give an exact cause of the problem.
At least two nuclear power plants were involved, though it was unclear if the power plants themselves went offline first or if the shutdown was triggered by a problem on the grid.
Much of the outage was restricted to southern Florida, though the Miami Herald reported that electricity was out as far north as Jacksonville.
Mayor Carlos Alvarez of Miami-Dade County said in a news conference that the problem was 'technical,' not criminal, and that power would be restored 'within the next couple of hours.'
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Probably from the strain of running so many air conditioners in all the hot weather you're having
The wattage loss is obvioysly in keeping with global climmate change bas it has been laid out in the UN by scientists that the ignorants among you who have not been edukated as we have do not agree upon .soon the planet will be underwater because you all have been given a hummer from Rumsfeld .
you ignorants and fools who destroy the world with your big cars and your mcmansions and your sexy celebrities and your fast food and your make out partys have single handedly wrecked the cosmos killing trillions of people . now as in the katrina wind storm you have had your powerfailyre which should be a lesson that you need to sign the kyoto protocall and send bush to the haigue kourt where the judge will put him in her pouch and hop away.
I amtonny and i am eduketed. not like you who think that earth is 24 years old like bible tells you you ignorants who all make landmines and bombs that are shaped like cuddly puppies for a living .
Above post not from me as you could have guessed.Nevertheless the power loss reminds me of a documentary about Enron I've seen recently.That one showed how trough the procedure of arbitrage the traders of Enron sabotaged the power supply to California,even phoning to the power plants asking them to shut down in order to raise the price of electricity.Sometimes the price of electricity would rize twofold in less than twenty minutes.This became a genuine tool of Enron,allowing them to make billion dollar profits while losing elsewhere .The state of California had no control over the energy supply to their inhabitants and paid a hefty price for that .These power outages might be caused by similar mechanisms,as liong as you leave big business to take care of your energy supply without sufficient control you should not whine when they think profir first,supply coming in second.Creating a shortage of supply is considered economical sabotage in some countries,in the USA of Bush it seems to be considered an acceptable way of doing business.
more on this:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/04/BUGV4B5D1H1.DTL&ty pe=business
LOL!
Someone pops a fuse and the euro ninnie blames it on Bush....
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JoeyFeb 26th, 2008 - 22:10:40
So the media is going to ignore the numerous UFO sightings over the nuclear plant and toss out a no explanation?
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