[HPFGU-OTChatter] Blackout

[bettedavisgreen at aol.com]

Dans un e-mail daté du 15/08/2003 04:09:14 Paris, Madrid, 
kcawte at blueyonder.co.uk a écrit :

> lol - I wonder if Bloomberg has thought of that? Does it strike anyone else
> as somewhat pathetic that one lightning strike (which is what they are
> currently suggesting caused the fire that started the problem) can take out
> power for New York, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Ottowa, Toronto and
> everywhere in between? I mean we are in the early part of the 21st century
> and America is supposed to be the most technically advanced country in the
> world.
> 
> K
> 

Okay... Some people might say Portugal is still third world (not!). But we're 
pretty normal for european standards (am living in France, so I can compare).

Which didn't prevent a strok from colliding with an electric thingy a couple 
of years back and plunging four fifths of the counrty in the dark... 
Apparently, electric stations are all interellated, and that precise moment they were 
all relying on one sub station instead of a central one. Talk about Murphy's 
Law...

In the capital we had a two to three hour blackout, in the North only about 
half an hour, but the south of the country (and by that I mean the entire 
Algarve, the entire south coast of Portugal) was in the dark for over 12 hours 
(some villages for two days).

Storks keep doing that, that's why they are sponsored in the Lisbon's zoo by 
our national electricity company... And after the blackout there was a bit of 
a broua about, not how-can-this-happen-can't-you-guys-work-better, but 
how-come-you-couldn't-make-the-stork-feel-welcome-elsewhere... 

Cristina (who happened to be home at the moment, but who has a friend who 
spent two hours in a train in the middle of pitch dark country...)


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