November 11, 2009
Blackout in Brazil
Those of you in the US have probably heard of the blackout that hit southern Brazil last night. Rio Gringa has some great commentary about it. She also linked the following video, which shows the lights coming back on. Awesome.
According to news reports I am seeing it would appear that this was a minor problem which created a domino effect. So much of one, in fact, that the entire country of Paraguay was plunged into darkness.
Here in the northeast we felt no effects of this. I only found out about it when I turned on the computer this morning.
Posted by Andrew on November 11, 2009 9:35 AM.
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Posted by: Jason at November 11, 2009 12:51 PM
it was good to find out that the blackout actually was caused by faulty equipment -- not hackers
Posted by: Greg Delaney at November 12, 2009 12:41 AM
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We lost power here which meant no fan. Which meant no sleep! If you watch the video closely, you can see some of the lights go back off as people get out of bed to turn their lights back off.