[AusNOG] LGA11 - Hurricane Update

[Damian Guppy]

I think part of the problem is you can't just isolate everything and "turn
off" a power station, you either have to gradually isolate sections at a
time, or prepare to have load shedders running to dump all the excess power
while the turbines spin down. They probably didn't have enough capacity to
isolate everything all at once so started powering off sections at a time,
and it just happened that section flooded before it could be isolated.

--Damian

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

> Kind of makes you wonder if they are not prepared to isolate the load when
> they know for a fact that a few 1000 building's basements were about to
> flood what chance do we have of them isolating the transmission network
> when the next big geomagnetic storm's on target. Seem's like nothing was
> learned from the 1989. Wonder how long those transformers will take to
> replace/rewire. Perhaps some one's going to get an ass kicking.
>
>
> Matt.
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> On 30/10/12 7:34 PM, Jay Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Just came across this:
>>
>> http://www.news.com.au/world/**con-edison-power-station-**
>> blasts-rock-manhattan-<http://www.news.com.au/world/con-edison-power-station-blasts-rock-manhattan->
>> as-superstorm-sandy-lashes-**new-york/story-fndir2ev-**1226506877367
>>
>> --jay
>>
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>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:49:55PM +0800, Kai wrote:
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>>   > It was only gunna be a matter of time before modified supercell  >
>> photo's started circulated which claimed to be from the storm in  > the US
>> of A:
>>   > http://mashable.com/2012/10/**29/fake-hurricane-sandy-**photos/<http://mashable.com/2012/10/29/fake-hurricane-sandy-photos/>
>>
>> https://twitter.com/**politicoroger/status/**263050885825953793/photo/1<https://twitter.com/politicoroger/status/263050885825953793/photo/1>
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>>    - mark
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