"Mikko Peltoniemi" wrote in message
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So I was on the computer, then all of a sudden I hear BOOM, like an
circuit breaker tripping, and everything went quiet. The computer
was off.


Whenever I hear a BOOM (like a bomb blast) I know the whole neighborhood
goes down without power, either mine or another neighborhood down stream on
another feeder. That BOOM comes from an adjacent substation tripping a high
voltage, high current circuit breaker. So breakers do go BOOM, just not the
little house breakers.