clifp
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Almost all of Oahu lost power last night and took 16 hours to get power restored to 70% of the island (Mine was restored after "only" 12 hours.)
The only reason anybody would know about this is because Barack Obama is here and the press reported it. The city, secret service, and electric company all rushed generators to him. I guess there are some real perks to the job
Evidently a lightning stike took out a transformer which resulted in the whole system overloading. Now I am bitching too much, cause if you have to lose power in Dec. this one of the most beign places to lose power. Still I am more than a little annoyed that something as trivial as lightning storm caused a 16 hour power outage. A couple of years ago the Big Island (200 miles away) had a moderate earthquake with knocked out power and also took 12-16 hours to restore power.
I am wonder how long it takes the power company in your hour to get the electricty back on after the normal winter or summer storm. Now obviously Hawaii isn't on the the national grid, so this isn't an completely fair comparision. On ther other hand we aren't talking about hurricane winds, or a few feet of snow either. $.30 KWH electricity is bad enough but the crappy service is enough for me to start looking at ways to get off the grid.
The only reason anybody would know about this is because Barack Obama is here and the press reported it. The city, secret service, and electric company all rushed generators to him. I guess there are some real perks to the job
Evidently a lightning stike took out a transformer which resulted in the whole system overloading. Now I am bitching too much, cause if you have to lose power in Dec. this one of the most beign places to lose power. Still I am more than a little annoyed that something as trivial as lightning storm caused a 16 hour power outage. A couple of years ago the Big Island (200 miles away) had a moderate earthquake with knocked out power and also took 12-16 hours to restore power.
I am wonder how long it takes the power company in your hour to get the electricty back on after the normal winter or summer storm. Now obviously Hawaii isn't on the the national grid, so this isn't an completely fair comparision. On ther other hand we aren't talking about hurricane winds, or a few feet of snow either. $.30 KWH electricity is bad enough but the crappy service is enough for me to start looking at ways to get off the grid.