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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:40 AM Original message |
With all of this heat, how come there haven't been any power grid failures? Maybe there |
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daggahead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. Here in the Detroit area ... |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I guess we've been lucky here so far, seems we usually lose a transformer or |
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SugarShack (979 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. there was an outage in central fla last night...and in OHio... |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. Don't know about outside of NY |
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Lindsay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. When it hits NYC |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:46 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yeah, that's a good point!!! n/t |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
7. There were a bunch of them in the Twin Cities in Minnesota |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:50 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Yeah, that's what we usually get here, transformer failures and simple breaker blowouts. None so |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 11:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. They may happen as time goes on. Without a good evening |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 11:07 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. We have central air here, but often it seems wasteful to me. I've been thinking |
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muffin1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
8. Now you've done it. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:52 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Yep, now I did it!!! Funny, just after I posted this MSNBC said the power draw |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
10. Less people working, less businesses operating, many areas have automatic setbacks installed |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:54 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. All great points! Thanks! n/t |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
13. There have been plenty in multiple states |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 11:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Yep, that's a good point, until it hits the beautiful and important people in a few enclaves in a |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
14. Heard on local TV news yesterday afternoon |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. I hope you knocked on wood as you posted this. nt |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:39 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I must admit I knocked on my head! LOL n/t |
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