We had something similar happen in 2002 here in Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County). Our power company is Jacksonville Electrical Authority.
One bright spring day around 3:00PM there was a fire at a sub-station that caused a chain-reaction shutdown of all the power stations in the county. We had hot dogs over a Coleman stove that night. Power was restored at around 11:30PM.
In a nutshell, it seems that what happened this time was the same thing, but on a grander scale.
The funny part for me was that at the time (2002) I was working at a PC shop in a mall. I was working on a particularly old and recalcitrant workstation. I had lost all patience with the old crate. Just as I jabbed the power switch off the lights went out (in a room without windows). After fiddling with the circuit breaker box with no luck, I sat down in the front of the store where I could hear the mall's personnel saying not only was the power off in the mall, but the entire neighborhood was out!
I thought it was all my fault.
I was very relieved when I learned it was caused by something other than a flakey PC.
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We had something similar happen in 2002 here in Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County). Our power company is Jacksonville Electrical Authority.
One bright spring day around 3:00PM there was a fire at a sub-station that caused a chain-reaction shutdown of all the power stations in the county. We had hot dogs over a Coleman stove that night. Power was restored at around 11:30PM.
In a nutshell, it seems that what happened this time was the same thing, but on a grander scale.
The funny part for me was that at the time (2002) I was working at a PC shop in a mall. I was working on a particularly old and recalcitrant workstation. I had lost all patience with the old crate. Just as I jabbed the power switch off the lights went out (in a room without windows). After fiddling with the circuit breaker box with no luck, I sat down in the front of the store where I could hear the mall's personnel saying not only was the power off in the mall, but the entire neighborhood was out!
I thought it was all my fault.
I was very relieved when I learned it was caused by something other than a flakey PC.
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