Blackout

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, bettedavisgreen at a... wrote:
> Dans un e-mail daté du 15/08/2003 04:09:14 Paris, Madrid, 
> kcawte at b... a écrit :
> 
> 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...
> 
 
> 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... 


Haha... in Alabama, at least at the University of Alabama in 
Tuscaloosa, it is believed that the number one cause of power outages 
at that university is squirrels. Apparently they enjoy chewing their 
way through the electrical wiring, especially the lines that go into 
and out of the University's computer hub.

Anne U
(learned this from http://www.tourbus.com)