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Old 09-08-2019, 05:51 PM #1
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Default 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/

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London traffic lights are failing as well.....the russians...
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I didn't realise Lincolnshire even had electricity tbh
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That's a bit uncaring and unfunny.
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M21 foretelling these power cuts
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I'd imagine the government would make noise if the Russians hacked the system

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Early days yet.
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Ch4HDnews reported folks stuck in trains.
National Grid is at fault.
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Meanwhile, Vladimir has 4 bars on.
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Not Arista covering up for Russians
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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.
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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..
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it could be a malicious hack into the national grid, we will need to wait and see what comes from it
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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!
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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..
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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 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 ) 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?
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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 ) 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?
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Have you not had the storms today? Been bloody biblical level rain up here today
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Have you not had the storms today? Been bloody biblical level rain up here today
Nope 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
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Ugh if only this could’ve happened say... in SE London... tomorrow morning... at about 6am when I start work
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there is still hope!
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6am on a Saturday? Big E, you work too hard
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