Blown transformer was a symptom, not a cause (Image: CHS)
Monday was… inter – esting. This too. What’s next?
- re: Seattle City Light’s official explanation for the cause of Monday night’s 2.5 hour blackout, dust+water. Wouldn’t that be mud?
The cause of the outage is a faulty connection point on a switch that feeds the underground electrical system. When it rains after a long dry spell dust on equipment gets wet and can cause short circuits.
- Crazytrainmatt is a wiseguy:
stop sign trial on Madison successful
On the good side, with the stoplights out, Madison turned into a friendly low-speed city street instead of the near-freeway it usually is. 15-20 MPH is a huge improvement in noise and safety from 35-40MPH!
- @Edrea’s building decided to freak its residents out: “Cap hill may have gotten a power outage, but here at the montage our elevator is telling a different story…”
- By the way, we never heard more about the person stuck in the elevator in the 400 block of Harvard Ave E so we’re assuming they were eventually rescued.
- Seeing the original 11p service restoration estimate, some businesses packed it in and went home.
- To everybody who planned blackout parties only to be disappointed the lights came back on only to still have a party anyway, CHS salutes you.
“When it rains after a long dry spell dust on equipment gets wet and can cause short circuits…” We had a “long dry spell”? The infrastructure in Seattle is so crap that the lights go out when it RAINS?? Just sayin’: friends in DC and NYC have power after the earthquakes.
Regarding the elevator rescue, don’t assume all’s well. What if, as they cracked open the door, the saw a horrendous alien monster dressed as it’s pet; a human. Maybe they sealed the door and extracted the elevator car in its entirety and sent it to Area51? After all, this is Capitol Hill……
Speed on city streets is 30 MPH unless otherwise posted.
25 on residential and 30 on arterial unless otherwise posted.
i’m pretty sure it was the anarchists who did this.