[AusNOG] LGA11 - Hurricane Update

[Jake Anderson]

That or something just plain went wrong.
Dealing with that much power that could have just been some arc 
suppressors failing to work when they opened the switches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXiOQCRiSp0
keeping in mind they did this while the circuit was at minimum power you 
can imagine what opening one under load would be like if something went 
badly.

On 31/10/12 00:07, Damian Guppy wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
>
>
>
>
>     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-
>         as-superstorm-sandy-lashes-new-york/story-fndir2ev-1226506877367
>
>         --jay
>
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>         To: Kai
>         Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>         Subject: Re: [AusNOG] LGA11 - Hurricane Update
>
>         On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:49:55PM +0800, Kai wrote:
>
>           > 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/
>
>         https://twitter.com/politicoroger/status/263050885825953793/photo/1
>
>            - mark
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