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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Power Outage from Miami to Jacksonville to Tampa

For people have lost power in Florida today following a number of lightning and thunder storms it went to the area. The power outage is mass in scale and ranges from Miami to Jacksonville on the East Coast and from Miami to Tampa on the Gulf Coast side of Florida.

Apparently there have been up to eight power plants that were off-line or are still off line across the region according to the North American electric reliability Council. So far there is no word on why the power plants are off-line or what triggered the outage.

On the positive side, this power outage does not seem to have triggered a chain reaction of power outages over multiple states like the power outage seen just a few years ago that wiped out most of the Northeast and parts of Canada. In that regards it would appear that we are making some progress, or Florida's grid is stronger than that of the Northeast.

I suspect the number of people in Florida today are asking themselves, "what do you do when the powers out?"

There's only so much work you can do on the laptop battery. You can stay indoors in the dark, and if it eats up outside you can even run the air conditioning. Maybe today will be a good day to just head to the beach. Then again if you have the drive to the beach you might want to skip it if the pumps are running. Movie theater seating will be empty as normal build go to the movies nor the malls nor restaurants. It's not exactly like a situation such as a snowstorm or everybody just hunkers down in their homes, huddling closely to stay warm.

It could be a good day to golf or do some yard work, or take a walk and get some exercise. 

What would you do in Florida with no power?

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