Re: Summary: Bay Area Power (2000-06-14)

[Jim Browne <jbrowne () jbrowne com>]

At 22:46 -0700 6/14/00, lucifer () lightbearer com wrote:
> There was one unconfirmed report of an outage of unknown scope, area and
> duration occuring at 14:30.

Downtown Sunnyvale around Carroll Street (including PacBell SNVCA01 
and us) lost power (on one phase only) yesterday at 12:35 PDT.  PG&E 
brought it back at 15:35.  PG&E said that our area is using too much 
power and we blew the breaker on that phase.  The odd thing was we 
were still getting about 27 VAC on that phase with the breaker 
"blown".

Of course, the problem started again at 09:21 PDT and is ongoing. 
Generators (tested weekly) are your friend.  I'm sure burning gas 
does wonders to help out the "Spare the Air" effort.

I wonder when CA will require stoplights to have battery backup.  I 
imagine that is more likely to happen than having intelligent 
drivers.  We had one ambulance roll yesterday due to the "if the 
stoplight is not lit, hit the gas!" effect.

Jim Browne                                                jbrowne () jbrowne com
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