Carbon Monoxide warnings - keep generators outside 20ft away from doors and windows

Wed Sep 1 23:05:59 UTC 2021

On 9/1/21 15:07, Haudy Kazemi via NANOG wrote:
> Several articles have mentioned 8 transmission lines were lost to the 
> hurricane (a single big event event). A casual reader might think 8 
> lines would offer an 8-way level of redundancy.
> 
> My WAG is the reality of load vs capacity is more like a N-1 or N-2 
> redundancy, but that's really just a WAG. It is unclear to me if all 8 
> lines were damaged by the storm, or if some failed/tripped when loads 
> shifted onto the remaining lines after the first failure occurred 
> (cascading failure).

> Does anyone know, or has anyone seen, details?

Several pictures showing massive steel "cat-style" towers on the ground, 
as well as news reports that eight transmission lines are down.

Also saw a report that they will be isolating the storm area from the 
grid and bringing in temporary power plant(s), restoring critical load 
first.

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