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cgod  ·  1161 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 17, 2021

I've lived colder and snowier places but I've never lived anywhere that gets ice like Oregon does.

My biggest worry about the line near the shop is that they've lost track of it. This is the biggest outage the state and city have ever faced and they are going to lose track of some stuff. A friend of mine on the street is a city worker that does infrastructure and I know he'll sort it out before too long if it needs sorting.

I don't have a pic but it isn't hard to find down lines. Downed cable lines are a dime a dozen, the cable companies do unforgivably shoddy work. Two sub stations blew, many transformers blew and a ton of lines are down.





WanderingEng  ·  1161 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I work for a utility, and they probably have a record that it's down. Maybe not, but losing track of a line outage would be unheard of.

My personal anecdote is we had some intense wind rip through our footprint back a couple years ago. Some big lines were down which also blacked out at least one substation. It took hours to even get crews to answer the phone because they were so busy with other restorations. Once they got the big lines fixed and restored that substation, the load on it was zero because every little line coming out of it was also down. It's a rural area so it got little attention in news, but the area just got smashed.

From what I see in Oregon, you have much the same thing but in higher population areas and over a bigger geographic area.