Massive Blackout in Florida - Orlando to Miami

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LOL you misunderstood me. I was calling Bravo-Sierra (aka BS) on the fact that we pay a small fortune for upkeep and the scumbags keep the cash instead of upgrading their infrastructure.
But nice picks anyway...

Florida Power hardly owns the state like they did years ago. Most of the outages are from the storms as seen here on Progress Energy's map. You can see that they power most of Florida. The problems in south Florida are separate. Today it was very windy all day then we had pretty bad storms roll in at 35 to 45 miles an hour and that more then likely caused all of the outages.

www.progress-energy.com...

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So what is the official story now? A transformer exploded which caused a surge in power, which knocked out a Nuclear power plant?
Is it high wind that knocked out transmission lines?

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Okay, then how do you explain that some of these outages were like one building on a block long before the storm hit, something was going on today.

My gut tells me that some of it was instigated for the sake of diversion. I can't explain what I've seen today any other way.

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I don't think it was anything like terrorist or hackers. It was some patch they did or repairs from the past hurricane seasons. They never fixed everything just patched and got it working again.The people that repaired the power in the area i'm in were from Canada they patched what they had to and left. They got payed to repair the lines and only patched them temporarily.FPL has never gone back to them to finish the repair cause there still holding. The pole behind my house is an example of there patch work from 2004. Put new lines in and just taped them to the pole and didn't mount them to the pole.
heres the pics

Notice how the wires are taped to the pole at the top and bottom with electrical tape. Thats canadian repairs after hurricane Jenne and francis hit here in 2004.Nice work huh!

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WW, if you watched FOX they were betting on a crash, and insisting that people there were...well...no better than animals. If that same situation happened here on Cape Cod, your chances of getting your ars run over by a truck would be equally as good if not better!
They had a camera focused on 79th & 10th, just waiting for an ACCIDENT TO HAPPEN.


Then we like to think of ourselves as a nation without prejudice.

Its dose darn Cubans, give em a car and lookey what happens!!!!!

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I thought you meant me and had to come up with pics.Took a while had to setup a yahoo account, flicr accout, go outside take the pics, upload them before i could post them. Sorry for the delay on them.

Originally posted by harddrive21
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So what is the official story now? A transformer exploded which caused a surge in power, which knocked out a Nuclear power plant?
Is it high wind that knocked out transmission lines?

"Optimus? NOOOOOO!" lol! j/k

I don't really have much to add to this topic since I live in GA so I don't think we really experience the brunt of the storm. The only thing I can say is that I had a very bad feeling going out. I don't know what it was, the sky and the air just felt very surreal somehow.

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Sorry for the miscommunication. I did appreciate the work you put into it. Those pictures just illustrate the larger problems of greed and corruption - and it has existed for longer than this power outage. It is years old, and they have not been held accountable.
A class action lawsuit probably would go nowhere, the city or county being pushed on the issue would pawn it off and there is not one watchdog group that has stepped in.
I believe Duct tape cures all tech problems when a quick fix is needed, but 2 year old duct tape problems are unacceptable.

I live alittle more north of orlando and we also had power outages as well as high wind gusts, tornadoes, and heavy heavy thunderstorms.

Florida is known for its dramatic weather. We get storms like this frequently. Its not uncommon at all.

I think the scary feelings are coming from the fear monger news chanels.There tired of Hillary, Mccain and Obama stories.So they jumped on the first chance to do some Bush Mccain fear mongering on dooms day in Florida.

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AHAHAHAHAHAHA.....dude I LOL'd that to the point my wife that I was going insane. Any reference to the animated movie is worth while.
Georgia is totally getting the short end of the stick...if its not Tennessee stealing your water, its Florida stealing water and your power, Atlanta is out of water/in a water crisis...
Up here in MI, the average snowfall is 33 inches per winter...we just hit 66...feast or famine I guess

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Let's get a couple of terms straight.

Surge is an incorrect term for what is actually a voltage dip.
Generally - and as an example - the only way you'd have a surge is if a 69kv sub-transmission line fell onto a 16kv distribution line, the increase in voltage even though temporary is on the order of a half second to two seconds long impresses a little over four times the voltage on the distribution line.

The rule is where voltage is concerned, dips go down and surges go up.
During fault conditions, only voltage dips are involved.


As far as having Canadian utility workers in to assist FPL people, that's commonly done in the electric industry.
The Kauai hurricane 'Iniki' a few years back was a good example of this.
Kauai had electrical workers in from all over the US and I believe Canada as well.


What you may be seeing with the secondary wires taped to the pole is perhaps a temporary thing and may have been forgotten.
The Canadian linemen do good work and they would have had an FPL lineman with them to oversee the job.


This really is a simple situation and once we get some more information we can determine what happened.

One thing you want to keep in mind, the utilities are not dinking around with you.
They want the lights on at all times.
Not only to show what a good job they are doing - and they are doing a good job - but simply to keep the meters running.

One night we lost a distribution line that carried 1400 customers.
The monetary loss to the company was considerable, not only in the costs for line repair and the like, but the biggest expense was the meters that were not turning.

One hour of no service to 1400 customers adds up to a chunk of change....

maybe the nuke plant exploded and killed all witnesses, now they don't want us to know =o.

I just heard the cause was due to a fire at a nucler plant.

If you live in South Florida you get accustomed to crap like this. I moved down to Fort Lauderdale from New York a few years ago and I'm amazed at how horrible the electrical infrastructure is in this state. I could literally pass gas and the power goes out. The last time we had a hurricane I was out of power for 3 weeks. One area of my apartment complex miraculously had power and one night I was so fed up with taking ice cold showers that I actually went to the complexes public hot tub with a bar of soap and bathed. My roomate thought I was nuts.

I just had to go sit in my closet with my dog because a tornado was spotted coming straight at my area. Luckily it dissipated before it got here. Nothing like hearing tornado warnings blasting on the TV when your half asleep then to see its coming at your house lol.

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Hi Desert Dawg,

Thanks for all your expertise in this matter it is mucho appreciated.

After a freak storm here I always look at those utility guys with as much respect as the fireman around here, you have my respect.

Where is all the money going though when you leave duct tape behind? Is it the customers responsibility to quality control?