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Morphineus
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You don't need friends to go and be obnoxious in other countries. 
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M4trix
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Invasor
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Jul 2016 05:52 Post subject: |
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There's one like that every couple of months here, worst one was last week when power came and went for a few hours until it was finally fixed, unfortunately not much to be done about it as while you are free to switch power companies but there's still a monopoly on certain areas so maintenance on the actual lines and poles is pretty terrible here.
(It's damn cheap though, at least.)
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Jul 2016 12:19 Post subject: |
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@JBeckman
Outages for several hours?
I expected that a rich kurwa country like Sweden has a pretty good infrastructure management to not have something like that happen?
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JBeckman
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Yeah sadly there are exceptions, larger cities are generally very stable but smaller towns and more remote houses are still not entirely covered, for a few years now things have slowly been moving towards changing the older standard method with wooden pillar power cables to ones that run below the ground (Read a while back that some of the oldest remaining poles are actually somewhat toxic due to the coating used if I understood that right.) - but it's a very slow process and also very costly so smaller power companies are a bit behind.
(Same situation with fiber cabling actually though it's not as critical as having power and ADSL is pretty well developed by now, funnily enough here it's the larger companies stalling and not considering it worthwhile to invest for smaller areas so smaller companies band together instead, been slowly expanding and is progressing quite well by now, at least around here for areas still not fiber connected.)
The power cables for this area go through a forest for one thing so any storm has a chance to cause damage and that's usually what happens.
The station itself is in a pretty poor state too, some part broke down last year that had power gone for about eight hours though thankfully this was a bit after midnight so it was all ready by morning.
(It breaks fairly easily but at least it's also fixed rather quickly although the new terms and conditions might be part of that as we are now compensated a bit more for longer outages although I believe the minimum is something like 24-hours which thankfully that hasn't happened yet.)
Thunder storms while pretty rare (Less than ten a year usually.) are also a major issue although there's not much one can do about that so if a bolt hits nearby either the lights will flicker or the entire power grid goes down, usually the latter.
And on the rare occasion one of those larger storms come through well depending on where it hits you can expect some hundred thousand or so households to be affected although this is anything from power outages to flooding (Also a problem in some areas.) and the annoying as shit issue with a piece of tree or whatever hitting some part of the house.
(Some of the barns around here are pretty dilapidated and worn down but somehow still standing, pretty impressive for buildings that are that busted really but back then they built stuff to last.  )
EDIT: Such storms are very rare however, no wonder we have little against them when they do strike. (What exactly are you supposed to do against wind strong enough to tear down grown trees though? )
(Similar from how I've heard when there's a couple of cm of snow in some states in the US whereas here they'd probably expect you do still get to school or work unless it's below -20c and utter snow-storm weather ha ha, eh we do have pretty good preparation for snowy weather however and it used to be even worse back in the earlier part of the 20th century as can be seen in older pictures and the like.)
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sanchin
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Jul 2016 17:02 Post subject: |
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Well, I didn't suffer from power outages for quite some time, but last year we (Poland/Cracow) were on the verge of a total blackout because of the prolonged drought, extreme temperatures and low water level in rivers used for power plant cooling. Big companies and factories were obliged to cut their power consumption noticeably.
I work in an office space being a part of a complex of 5-6 building and a big shopping mall. Whole complex's power requirement is around 1,3 MW typically (from what we were told) and it had to be cut down to 0,3 = this means no AC in the mall (meh, who cares), barely any lights, closed shops etc. BUT - also no AC in the office since 10 a.m. till evening. I start early and finish job around 3 p.m. - it was 30 degrees at my desk when I left the office and it was still rising.
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sanchin
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every massive thunderstorm, the overhead powerlines (idk how to call, they are not underground like in europe) would get hit by lightning and the system went down for safety...
