Power Outage
The Crabitat was without any power for several hours today, the result of a series of very nasty thunderstorms that swept through the area (the forecast was calling for a 50% chance of "some" storms. Not a word of warning about massive storms, go figure.) The chance turned really ugly with the area getting hammered - many trees down. That, of course, led to power lines being knocked down as well. The power is back, for now at least. It has flickered several times, however, so I'm not sure we're out of the woods yet. I have UPS systems for every computer, but they are limited in capacity, so I shut the computers down when the lights went off for the final time after a series of short trips.
The hardest thing was explaining protective relaying and the physical realities of restoring downed lines to a bored 12-year old boy.
Geek Stuff, Personal Thoughts | Gaius Monday, 6 August , 2007
By Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr., Monday, 6 August , 2007 @ 6:23 pm
We were without power from 1250 Central until about 1825.
From the looks of thinks (narrow track, debris patterns, etc) I think we might have has a little tornado.
But we will probably never know.
Where are you? (I about 1/2 way between Occupied Elkhorn and Gretna, NE.