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San Francisco hit with massive power outage linked to substation fire
2017-04-22
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  Wouldn't be surprised, ed.

It IS PG&E after all.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-04-22 16:23  

#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  

#8  Poss caused by some guy in that apt building peeing off his balcony.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-04-22 15:34  

#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  

#6  Larkin Substation
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-04-22 13:19  

#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  

#4  An 'accident' like Atlanta's freeway fire?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-04-22 11:02  

#3  Think how much smaller SanFran's carbon footprint was during this emergency.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-04-22 10:29  

#2  EMP Junior. Free introductory offer.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-04-22 09:55  

#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  

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