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South FLA power outtage
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 4:01 pm
by PAmedic
what the hay is going on down there?
Hospitals w/out power
schools, etc.
something to do with a Nuke plant shutting down? 68k w/out power ATT
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 4:05 pm
by PAmedic
Lee County, Broward, Miami-Dade, Orlando, Miami and more.
entire eastern seaboard apparently.
newser on Fox now- saying NOT criminal, just a procedural malfunction that shut the plant down
DU-OH!
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 4:09 pm
by blwall1416
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 4:10 pm
by ToTheLeft
Lee County is Western, and a good distance from Miami/Dade. It's encompassing pretty much all of the peninsula, including my hometown and where I grew up... Craziness. From Tampa, all the way down around the peninsula and up to Jacksonville.
Good ol' FPL will sort things out somehow.
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 4:13 pm
by PAmedic
hysteria subsiding somewhat now as Shep is reporting it may largely be a "brown-out" rather than a complete "black-out" everywhere.
then again- typical initial reports are conflicting; no one really knows what's actually going on yet.
Certainly NO power in many areas.
good luck to emergency services if this continues after dark
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 4:20 pm
by Cider Jim
When the power goes out in West Virginia, no one even notices.
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 4:36 pm
by blwall1416
Cider Jim wrote:When the power goes out in West Virginia, no one even notices.
Yes they do....they notice "the bug zapper ain't makin' noise no more."
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 4:57 pm
by vastrightwinger
So they are saying Turkey Point which is a Nuclear Power Plant south of Miami went down and caused the rest of the plants up the coast to go down as well. I was on my lunch break and trying to get back to work when all of a sudden all the street lights went off. It turned a 10 minute drive into 45 minutes. My wife is a kindergarten teacher and she was not allowed to dismiss her class until almost 3:30 (school gets out at 2) because of the lights situation. Not fun! Everything is pretty much back to normal...well for South Florida anyway.
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 7:33 pm
by PAmedic
glad to hear they're getting it under control.
could've been a VERY long nite for you guys down there.
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 8:53 pm
by jack_sparrow81
Yeh we lost power up here in certian area's. I'm suprise the looters wern't out and about
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 8:58 pm
by PAmedic
glad you guys are doing ok.
