Power out in most of Florida.

[Moonliner]

CNN is reporting massive power outages in southern Florida from Orlando to Miami.

Does anyone know if WDW is included?


Humm the WDW webcam (http://www.wdwlive.com/web-cam.html)is down...

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I dunno, but my family is there right now (and I'm flying out to meet them tomorrow.) So I hope not!

[BarTopDancer]

Humm.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

CNN is reporting massive power outages in southern Florida from Orlando to Miami.

Does anyone know if WDW is included?


Humm the WDW webcam (http://www.wdwlive.com/web-cam.html)is down...

That doesn't appear to be live though, so it might not be a good indicator of the power state:

Is this a LIVE web cam? Of course not.

from here (http://www.wdwlive.com/how-it-works.html)

although if they simulated the power outage, that would be impressive.

[figment1986]

hmm.... WDW does have like 3 power providers... so if one went down they can draw from another... as far as i know most if not all of TECO power territories were still operational... and disney does get some power from TECO.

[Alex]

Maybe they should consider finally getting around to building their own nuclear power plant.

[innerSpaceman]

As promised in Walt's original plans for Epcot.

[€uroMeinke]

You know, the industry is expecting a resurgance of Nuclear it being more carbon freindly and all...

[figment1986]

You know, the industry is expecting a resurgance of Nuclear it being more carbon freindly and all...

I get my power from a nuke plant... the only problem with nuke plants is the waste... and no one really wants the waste in their state.

[Alex]

True, but generally, waste is the only problem with the other forms of power plants as well.

What is interesting to me is that many will support hydroelectric and coal plants over nuclear when the first two do their environmental damage by design while the latter does it only when things go horribly wrong.

I'd much prefer to live next door to a nuclear plant than a coal powered plant.

Of course, it looks like the nuclear plant is the source of the today's problems.

[figment1986]

what nuke plant caused the problems today?

[Kevy Baby]

Bob's Nuclear Power Plant and Bait Shop in Tallahassee

[figment1986]

Bob's Nuclear Power Plant and Bait Shop in Tallahassee

but they closed and moved to universal orlando

[Alex]

Turkey Point near Miami.

But now I'm seeing conflicting information on whether it was the trigger or just a casualty of whatever really started it all.

[Moonliner]

Bob's Nuclear Power Plant and Bait Shop in Tallahassee

Their glow worms are the best!

[wendybeth]

Bob's Nuclear Power Plant and Bait Shop in Tallahassee
Lol! Visible mojo for KB.

[figment1986]

Turkey Point near Miami.

But now I'm seeing conflicting information on whether it was the trigger or just a casualty of whatever really started it all.

I herd a substation went offline for some reason and that triggered the power plant shut down... which then causes a stress on the power grid which then caused the random black outs for different companies to compensate for the lack of power... at least the entire grid didn't go down like what happened in new england a few years ago... maybe it was a friend of at critter from new york who did it?

[Alex]

Yeah, that seems to be the confirmed story now, that a fire at a substation near Turkey Point triggered the nuclear plants to shut down and it went downhill from there. But when the story first broke (that I heard) it was that a fire at the Turkey Point plants shut them down.

[Moonliner]

Yeah that's what I heard too. It just took some time to get the cover-up team in place to erase all the real evidence, make it look like an accidental fire and then get the story out to the media.

[CoasterMatt]

It was a giant radioactive mutant turkey on fire near the nucular plant- I seen it on the Youtubes!!

[Not Afraid]

I just want to live in Turkey Point.


Well, maybe not.

[CoasterMatt]

Long Beach is now "Turkey Point" - like Dana Point, but with more tryptophan!
:)

[dlrp_bopazot]

hey we were not out of power by where i live but i heard that Disney University and some Resorts was out of power for a couple of seconds just time to the Generators to turn on .

[RStar]

Yeah, that seems to be the confirmed story now, that a fire at a substation near Turkey Point triggered the nuclear plants to shut down and it went downhill from there. But when the story first broke (that I heard) it was that a fire at the Turkey Point plants shut them down.

Isn't that the story they put out just before Three Mile Island leaked radioactive water? :eek:

[Moonliner]

Interesting. I've now run across multiple sources that pin this power outage on Chinese Hackers (http://angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com/enemy_at_the_gate_did_chinese_hackers_infiltrate_u s_power_g.htm).

Of course the official line is still "No hackers here".

However just to be safe...

亲爱的同志，我下星期參觀迪斯尼世界。 在我的參觀期間，可能您不請弄髒與力量。 谢谢。 反回I' ll看見什麼我可以做關於得到您微軟視窗的一些百萬個拷貝沒有所有設立製造廠的后门。 懇切地， Moonliner。

[Gn2Dlnd]

Now, why would heavy smokers in China want to disrupt Florida's electricity?

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Not only did I wonder why there was nothing on the main page of CNN about this, but I also asked Heidi what time she was leaving tomorrow for Florida.

Moral of the story: Date stamps are your friend.

[RStar]

I was thinking "Oh no, not again!"

Then I looked at the original date. :rolleyes: