Losing Electricity

Don M.

Don M.

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We were doing some shopping at the local Walmart this afternoon. It was fairly busy, and the aisles were full of customers. Suddenly, the store lost power. and the only light was what was coming in from the roof skylights. This store has no backup generator, so everything quickly came to a halt. After about 1/2 hour, the employees told everyone to leave their carts, and exit the store. What a mess! When we left the parking lot, it appeared that the other businesses in the area were not impacted.

This brought the disaster in Florida to my mind. Some of Those people may be weeks before they have power....IF their properties survived. Electricity is one of the "foundations" of our daily lives, and loss of that power can quickly turn our lives upside down.
 

If the store had no back-up generators presumably they lost all the perishable goods?
 

We were in a Camping World store checking out when BANG there was a lightening strike and the power shut down. We had just finished checking out, so we took our things about $250 and left. When the credit card bill came our purchases were listed twice. A phone call corrected it immediately.
 
Years ago, I was without power for 5 days in the middle of winter. You don't realize how much you rely on electricity until it's not there. I have a well, no juice=no water. And when the power is off you do stupid things. The power is down for the area, so you plug the light into another outlet. OMG!!!! IT doesn't work. DUH!!!
 
Your power failure is small peanuts. You wanna see real power failure. It's coming when all those young folks switch to EV vehicles. At night, they are going to plug in their cars and your gonna have a national blackout in hydro from the New England States right down to Sunny California and from Puget Sound right down to Key West in Florida. Good luck and that one. It's gonna have to be "hydro rationing" just like they ration water down there in the "City of Angels."
 
Don M. said:
We were doing some shopping at the local Walmart this afternoon. It was fairly busy, and the aisles were full of customers. Suddenly, the store lost power. and the only light was what was coming in from the roof skylights. This store has no backup generator, so everything quickly came to a halt. After about 1/2 hour, the employees told everyone to leave their carts, and exit the store. What a mess! When we left the parking lot, it appeared that the other businesses in the area were not impacted.

This brought the disaster in Florida to my mind. Some of Those people may be weeks before they have power....IF their properties survived. Electricity is one of the "foundations" of our daily lives, and loss of that power can quickly turn our lives upside down.
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in the 70's this happened with regular monotony in the Uk with power outages
 
We went back to Walmart today, and they said a delivery truck backed into their power pole, and it took 3 hours to get everything back to normal. This is just a small sample of what is coming...as PackerJohn said....if EV's become the norm with our current power grid.
 

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