US , Electrical Grid in NE gone down

spongebob

NY Boston Detroit Toronto all out.

M

BKtje

any idea why?

that would feel mighty weird

seamus

And more Muck.

They're claiming a cascade failure due to the antiquated nature of the system. According to Sky news, one transformer overloaded in NYC, then as the system attempted to compensate, ie reroute power through other transformers, those transformers blew, and so on, cascading through the system.

Anyone know their stuff about electricity? It sounds possible, but not very likely IMO.

milltown

WooHoo!
Let the looting begin.

Have to have a look at Sky News now I suppose.

MrPinK

Details are a little scetchy so far. Seemingly, a New York power plant was shut down, and it somehow caused cascading shutdowns to other stations that were connected to it.

Could these power plants have been using XP without the RPC patch? Maybe

spongebob

Cascade failures took NY out in the 1960's and 1970's, no surprise to me that they ****ed up again.

M

jesus_thats_gre

I would be inclined to think they were using NT at the most.. So they could still be affected?

Typedef

Yeah, it's a DCOM sploit AFAIK, consistent through versions.

spongebob

They admitted it was a group protection fault, Windows 3.1 , awwwwwww.

Matt Simis

Originally posted by Muck
Cascade* failures took NY out in the 1960's and 1970's, no surprise to me that they ****ed up again.

M

*But we call it a "domino" effect - Sky News :rolleyes:

I guess Sky think "cascade" is too complicated a term for their audience.



Matt

charlie_says

/rant
Its interesting that over in the States if the power goes out (OK so it did affect a shed load of peeps) for a few hours its major news.

Here in sunny Galway we have had at least 4 blackouts here over the last year and half some of them lasting up to 12 hours, yet no one seems to complain....except for this little ripple
/rant

JackKelly

"Here in sunny Galway we have had at least 4 blackouts here over the last year and half some of them lasting up to 12 hours, yet no one seems to complain....except for this little ripple"

Well this one in america would be more like a blackout all across ireland

Thats like when someone in my year said (about september 11):

"I don't know what ever one is crying about, its just like having a car bomb in louth"

i was like, you f*cking idiot, its like a car bomb the size of louth

charlie_says

No doubt there will be a massive enquiry in the States over the power loss and heads will roll, but my point was that when the same thing happens here we all just accept it again and again.
You might if you are lucky get a 9 second story on it on RTE news, claiming "engineers are working on the problem" and that’s about as good as it gets....

At least I have never heard of a "cascading failure" in the ESB system. It sounds rather like the sort of thing someone would say in a bad action movie followed by oh my god get me a cup of coffee

Lemming

Yup - was it not Bell who lost their entire telephone network in a similar style in the 1970s ?

They had lots of 'cells' and one went which started a cascade.

spongebob

Originally posted by charlie_says
/rant Here in sunny Galway we have had at least 4 blackouts here over the last year and half some of them lasting up to 12 hours, yet no one seems to complain....except for this little ripple
/rant

That was only in the city dude so its not that big a deal.

M

Villain

Originally posted by milltown
WooHoo!
Let the looting begin.

Only 4 burglaries all night in New York

If that was Galway, there be nothing left !! lol

charlie_says

Yes all Buckfast would be the first to go!

Ro

This didn't take long!

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by charlie_says

You might if you are lucky get a 9 second story on it on RTE news, claiming "engineers are working on the problem" and that’s about as good as it gets....

well it wont matter cause no one will see it...................cause we wont have any power

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by Matt Simis
*But we call it a "domino" effect - Sky News :rolleyes:

I guess Sky think "cascade" is too complicated a term for their audience.

What's this about pizzas?