Power Cut Balbriggan

suzieb

Power went off ten mins ago,no electricity,no phone coverage even.

How badly are all areas affected? As far as I can see its from Dunnes to Wavin side?

northdubgal

That was very strange! Just came back on now..

It was such an eerie feeling!! Doesn't help that I was in the middle of watching the Grudge :eek:

Mr. Razzcocks

No electricity really is ****e, what are you supposed to do????

suzieb

haha wouldn't fancy watching the grudge with that happening!

B/f in middle of pouring cup of tea could have been dangerous!

I've never experience mobile phone outage at same time as electricity going though,that would panic me if was in house alone.

Absurdum

alien invasion

Dizzyblonde

Very strange - here in Swords our lights dimmed at around the time yours came back on

Síle28

Back on Phew!

Mr. Razzcocks

I saw a UFO last night in fact. About half 1 in the morning out over the sea a big orange flash like thing, was like something was on fire. Moved across the sky for a good distance and just faded out.

Sparky84

Fault on 38kV line between Swords and Balbriggan. People in Swords would have experienced a dip in power for a second. All back to normal now.

dcr22B

We got the dip in power out in Lusk as well.

Sparky84

Lusk is also connected to the 110kV stn in Swords via the 20kV network. Loughshinny,Skerries, Rush etc would all have noticed the dip.

dotts1977

It went off again at about 2am this morning too. Took a good 10-15 mins before it came back on. At least I know the emergency lights in the block work!;)

Dizzyblonde

Mr. Razzcocks wrote: »

I saw a UFO last night in fact. About half 1 in the morning out over the sea a big orange flash like thing, was like something was on fire. Moved across the sky for a good distance and just faded out.

Probably just the sun teasing us because it's been so long since we've seen it

rccaulfield

Any reason givin for the cut? Why did the phone signals go aswell?

darren1978

Mr. Razzcocks wrote: »

I saw a UFO last night in fact. About half 1 in the morning out over the sea a big orange flash like thing, was like something was on fire. Moved across the sky for a good distance and just faded out.

sounds like this this was space debris or a meteor, probably a meteor...i've seen something similar a couple of times in the last year or so, more common than you'd think...just hope nothing comes along of any significant size or we'd have a proper blackout

Eoineo

rccaulfield wrote: »

Any reason givin for the cut? Why did the phone signals go aswell?

Mobile phone signals went because the relay stations need power. If you have a landline that didn't depend on electricity to work you would have been able to use that. We have a spare in our house exactly for that purpose!

Sparky84

How many people reaalise thst we are using electricity generated from nuclear power plants ??
We have none in Ireland but have an Inter-Connector to Scotland and will soon have one coming into the North Beach in Rush going to a 400kV station in Batterstown.

blastman

To be honest, I don't think it matters but it does show the hypocrisy in that you can't even discuss nuclear power even though we're going to be importing it.

starbelgrade

Sparky84 wrote: »

How many people reaalise thst we are using electricity generated from nuclear power plants ??
We have none in Ireland but have an Inter-Connector to Scotland and will soon have one coming into the North Beach in Rush going to a 400kV station in Batterstown.

I hope you all fry.