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Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Nearly 2 Hours (cnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the worst-case-scenario dept.

A major power outage brought a major portion of the Consumer Electronics Show in the Las Vegas Center to a standstill for nearly 2 hours today. The lights went out at around 11:13 a.m. PT, just as the second day of CES 2018 was ramping up, and didn't turn back on until around 12:34 p.m. PT. CNET reports: It came a day after more than an inch of rain fell in Las Vegas, which caused flash flooding in the desert city. (Wednesday's weather is clear and warm, and it's unclear if the power outage was at all related.) The first reports of the blackout came from the convention center's Central Hall, which houses the giant booths for show mainstays including Sony, Samsung, LG and Intel -- though Samsung's booth still had limited electricity thanks to its own private backup power. By noon, security guards were refusing entry to parts of the Convention Center. The website of Nevada Energy, the power provider, listed the cause of the problem as "customer-owned electrical equipment."

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  1. Nearly 2 hours? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So now 1h 21m is nearly two hours?
    Anyway, I find that hilarious, but of course I wasn't there. As long as no one was hurt, we can all laugh.

    1. Re:Nearly 2 Hours? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      How about? Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Just Over and Hour

      I see what you didn't do there!

    2. Re:Nearly 2 Hours? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 2

      "Hour and a half" would've been most accurate, since the times they give add up to 91 minutes.

  2. Nearly 2 Hours? by heezer7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about? Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Just Over and Hour

  3. No UPS vendors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess emergency power isn't needed now that everything is in the cloud.

  4. "Flash flooding" sounds like a vulnerability name by ffkom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... where availability is compromised by some attacker flooding your flash storage with spurious data :-)

  5. Did anyone check to see where George Clooney was? by hashish · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cause by rain yeah!, did anyone check to see where George Clooney was at the time?

  6. all the backup power is for the slots and tables by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 2

    all the backup power is for the slots and tables