Major power cut leaves larges parts of England without electricity
 

https://news.sky.com/story/large-par...r-cut-11781338

[Northern Powergrid said 110,000 customers lost power on Friday evening.
The company supplies 3.9m homes in the North East as well as Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.]
[Western Power Distribution (WMD) which supplies the Midlands, the South West and Wales, also said they have a "major incident".]
["We believe this is due to a failure on National Grid's network, which is affecting our customers."]


Not good news at all/

London traffic lights are failing as well.....the russians...

I didn't realise Lincolnshire even had electricity tbh ;)

That's a bit uncaring and unfunny.

M21 foretelling these power cuts

I'd imagine the government would make noise if the Russians hacked the system

Hehe...

Early days yet.

Ch4HDnews reported folks stuck in trains.
National Grid is at fault.

Meanwhile, Vladimir has 4 bars on.

Not Arista covering up for Russians:o

People keep telling me its off all over the north east, but mines still on (luckily) so thats fake news!

QE hospital in Gateshead..their ****ing generator is off. So..people are going to die due to negligence. Bloody ridiculous tbh.

Hmm seems only London areas is actually news? As I siaid, much of the north east too. Including a large hospital which have been negligent enough to not maintain their emergency generator..:umm2:

it could be a malicious hack into the national grid, we will need to wait and see what comes from it

Could it not be the freak weather? There's just been a massive storm here, shocked to hear about the hospital Vicky! That could be a catastrophe! :(

I know, its ridiculous, should be first priority surely, having the backup generator bloody working. Fairly sure a large amount of people are going to..well die. Someones getting fired I think..

I was wondering that, we had some crazy thunder a few days ago (the house actually shook), there were a few power cuts in local villages after it (not here :hee: ) and there are now a few areas locally where there's no mobile reception at all and others where there's "basic" but no 3g/4g so it seems like it knocked out some mobile phone masts.

I'd guess a bigger storm in the wrong place could do some damage to the grid?

not had any extreme weather in London?

Have you not had the storms today? Been bloody biblical level rain up here today

Nope :laugh: it rained over night, then a few showers in the afternoon, and the wind picked up about 4pm...in the main its been dry and sunny, rained heavy about 8pm but well after the power cuts

Ugh if only this could’ve happened say... in SE London... tomorrow morning... at about 6am when I start work :hehe:

there is still hope!

6am on a Saturday? Big E, you work too hard :hee:

Fingers crossed Cherie :fc:

When it gets to the weekends at work though I’m lazy as anything. I need my energy for when I go out on the booze :hehe: