On 11/1/2012 8:23 AM, Home Guy wrote:
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Why didn't they de-energize the system an hour or so before the main
brunt of the hurricane came ashore?

Amongst other reasons because the system is tied to a much larger one
and there are many reasons to try to keep power as long as possible to
as much of the service area as possible...

Presicence of which particular substation transformer might fail isn't
yet built in.

Stupid asses.

This poster here is the only one of those I see in the thread...

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