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2017-04-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

San Francisco hit with massive power outage linked to substation fire

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-22 02:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Get use to it, when you gen up the Civil War, it will be a far more normal state of life.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-22 07:26|| 2017-04-22 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 EMP Junior. Free introductory offer.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-04-22 09:55|| 2017-04-22 09:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Think how much smaller SanFran's carbon footprint was during this emergency.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-22 10:29|| 2017-04-22 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 An 'accident' like Atlanta's freeway fire?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-22 11:02|| 2017-04-22 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I was beginning to wonder if Gray Davis was back in charge of that third world nation.

Posted by newc 2017-04-22 12:56|| 2017-04-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Larkin Substation

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-04-22 13:19|| 2017-04-22 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Excellent! It looks like a new design with all the latest eco-features, photovoltaics and all that.

Posted by Bobby 2017-04-22 14:58|| 2017-04-22 14:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Poss caused by some guy in that apt building peeing off his balcony.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-22 15:34|| 2017-04-22 15:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually, the main facility is the brown building to the left, and the one in the design is the new switchgear installation. Supposedly (I'm told) there was equipment in the main building in use from 1902 (as in pre SF earthquake).

Posted by ed in texas 2017-04-22 15:43|| 2017-04-22 15:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Wouldn't be surprised, ed.

It IS PG&E after all.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-04-22 16:23|| 2017-04-22 16:23|| Front Page Top

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