So, who was it then....

[AdeV]

....who forgot to trip their Outback converter and knocked power out in Arizona/California/New Mexico then?



More to the point, was anyone with a working Lister(oid) generator affected who finally got to use it?

[Tom Reed]

Since we're off grid already, we'd never even notice. I'm not aware of to many SoCal lister owners.

[deeiche]

....who forgot to trip their Outback converter and knocked power out in Arizona/California/New Mexico then?



More to the point, was anyone with a working Lister(oid) generator affected who finally got to use it?

it was Arizona/California/Mexico, not New Mexico

[Tom T]

It was a test run for when thay bring the new phase variance program on line.
Tom T

[AdeV]

it was Arizona/California/Mexico, not New Mexico

I failed Geography.....


I'm getting back at all those Americans who don't know where The Rest Of The World is....


....erm



shit



sorry, mis-read the map on Sky News... no excuses... So, where IS New Mexico - I'm sure I've heard of it... is it a state or a town?

[deeiche]

I'm getting back at all those Americans who don't know where The Rest Of The World is....


....erm

shit

sorry, mis-read the map on Sky News... no excuses... So, where IS New Mexico - I'm sure I've heard of it... is it a state or a town?

isn't Blackpool in Wales.   

New Mexico is somewhere between Arizona and Texas.  Have you ever heard of Los Alamos?

[LowGear]

Have you ever heard of Los Alamos?

Come-on.  He probably hasn't even heard of El Camino.

Casey

[vdubnut62]

Bet he has, you know, with the twice pipes and the little dingle balls around the winchield man.
Ron

[BioHazard]

So, where IS New Mexico - I'm sure I've heard of it... is it a state or a town?

Right next to old mexico of course!

[veggie]

Back to the original topic  

What caused the outage ? Anyone hear the cause ?

veggie

[DanG]

Answers unclear as to cause yesterday... Cut cable was 2nd cause I read (welding with a backhoe?) and huge transformer tripped out was first cause I read - the heat was 115° or so at the time...

[vdubnut62]

Huh.  On Coast to Coast AM last night, they were talking about it being such a coincidence that the Commander in Thief brought up as part of the job creation deal for the grid to be updated.
The news claimed Operator error when someone changed out a component in a small AZ substation that should have affected 60,000 homes or so,
but somehow caused a cascade failure.

Sort of like the squirrel that took down the Northeast grid a while ago.

Seriously, we are having a bunch of flares from the sun.
Ron

[bschwartz]

Ade,
New Mexico is a state in the USA......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_mexico

I live in the South end of the state, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) North of Mexico in a town called Truth or Consequences.

[AdeV]

isn't Blackpool in Wales.   

Depends how big your map is, and how hard you squint  It can be made to look like it's in Wales....

New Mexico is somewhere between Arizona and Texas.  Have you ever heard of Los Alamos?

I have a book called Los Alamos, IIRC it was something to do with the Manhatten Project, beyond that, nope...

[AdeV]

Have you ever heard of Los Alamos?

Come-on.  He probably hasn't even heard of El Camino.

That's either a car, or something to do with Quentin Tarantino, right?