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MIAMI (Reuters) - A massive power outage struck parts of Florida on Tuesday, knocking out electricity to millions of people, snarling traffic at intersections and trapping residents in elevators.
The outage was controlled quite swiftly and power came back to most areas of the “Sunshine State” within several hours.
Some sort of “disturbance” in the power grid forced the Turkey Point nuclear plant in south Florida to go into an emergency shutdown, said a spokeswoman for FPL Group Inc, the main energy provider in the area.
Other power companies were also affected as the outage spread sporadically but extensively up the Florida peninsula as far north as Tampa on the Gulf of Mexico. Officials called it a domino chain of blackouts.
A spokesman for Progress Energy’s Florida utility said its clients were affected in the central part of the state.
Flights at Miami international airport were only marginally affected.
Linda Campbell of the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council said preliminary reports showed that the problem began at a substation in Miami-Dade County, leading to the loss of a transmission line and the shutdown of several plants owned by FPL subsidiary Florida Power and Light.
Mike Stone, a spokesman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said the blackout affected two to three million people while some local media said the number was higher.
Florida Power and Light said it expected to restore power to most Florida customers that lost power in about two hours.
“I don’t know the cause of the outage,” Stone told Reuters, saying authorities were waiting for an update from FPL. “There was a failure within the FPL system,” he said.
Officials in Washington said there were no signs of a link to terrorism.
“There is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time … we will continue to monitor,” U.S. Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Laura Keehner said. (and they know this how???) SC see how this can be done today here.
FAILING TRAFFIC LIGHTS, STUCK ELEVATORS
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez also assured residents there was nothing sinister about the incident.
“What I can assure people is that this was something technical. It wasn’t anything criminal related,” Alvarez told a news conference. (what does the mayor know that the experts don’t??? Something technical is right - it’s way beyond anything he or the experts think they know about…) SC
Lt. Elkin Sierra of the Miami-Dade fire rescue service said the biggest danger facing residents was failing traffic lights as people were not respecting the rules that say intersections should be treated as four-way stops when the signals are out.
“We have a high amount stuck in elevators. A lot of people are stuck in elevators,” he added.
Miami-Dade police said no major problems had been reported. Hospitals switched automatically onto emergency generators.
“Remember this is south Florida. We are used to dealing with power outages because of hurricanes. This is like a dress rehearsal for us,” said police spokeswoman Nelda Fonticiella.
CNN reported that eight power plants were shut down.
It was not just the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, the most populous part of the state, that was affected.
The power also went out in Volusia County, around Daytona Beach, site of the famous racetrack, and in Brevard county, where NASA launches space shuttles from its Kennedy Space Center.
On August 14, 2003, New York City and much of the Northeast and parts of the Midwest suffered a blackout that affected 50 million people. It was widely seen as the worst blackout in North American history.
That outage stranded hundreds of thousands of commuters and trapped subway riders underground in New York City, where thousands of people spent a hot night sleeping on sidewalks or walking miles in the darkness to reach their homes.
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino in New York, Randall Mikkelson in Washington, Jim Loney in Miami, Eileen O’Grady in Houston; Writing by Michael Christie, Editing by Frances Kerry)
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Excerpt from Tom Bearden’s site:
http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/081703.htm
So we can expect more “lightning strikes” on the power grid system, and more “failures of some little control gadgets here and there” in the system, prompting a safety shutdown of affected powerplants to save them. The end result is that the safety circuits trigger the abrupt shutdown of many powerplants, and the powerplants are saved only at the expense of having sweeping blackouts of the grid.
All this mess could of course be avoided if the DoE were interested in vacuum EM energy (which powers the entire grid system anyway, but which is just ignored by the EEs who use a model more than a century old, that assumes an inert vacuum and a flat spacetime, both falsified for what is now approaching a century).
Ah well! After we suffer enough costs and enough damage, and the people get angry enough and vote out enough politicians, eventually someone will actually go read why Lee and Yang were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957 and why it was awarded at such high speed. They may even read some quantum field theory, to discover that the classical notion used by all the electrical engineers of an “isolated charge in inert space” is false, and really the “charge” is a special dipolarity (two opposite INFINITE charges, but with a finite difference, and with the charges in violent and continual energy exchange with their active vacuum environment). THEN they may even recognize that, hey, those opposite charges must exhibit Lee and Yang’s broken symmetry, and hence that rigorously means they continuously absorb virtual photon energy from the seething vacuum, coherently integrate it into observable photon energy, and re-emit real, observable photons in all directions. That establishes and continuously replenishes the associated EM fields and potentials from that “source charge dipolar ensemble”.
Every EM field, EM potential, and joule of EM energy in the entire power grid comes directly from the local vacuum, via its interaction with the local charges in that grid. It does NOT come from cranking the shafts of the generators, or burning the coal and the oil and gas, or using nuclear fuel rods. As we have stated before, presently we pay the power companies to have a deliberate, giant wrestling match inside their own generators, and LOSE.
But for now, DoE, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, our “great national laboratories”, and every electrical engineering department all use an archaic electrical power engineering model that does recognize that all EM fields and potentials and their energy come from their associated source charges. However, the stupid model erroneously assumes an inert vacuum (inert space), so it assumes that the source charges do create and have created every EM field, EM potential, and joule of EM energy in the universe, right out of nothing at all!
As long as such an assumption is propagated and defended (and rigorously enforced) by the scientific establishment, then just so long will we have an energy crisis and planetary pollution crisis. And the archaic type power systems our engineers build — and the enormous grids they build and then find them messed up with political action and manipulating for profiteering, — will just get worse and worse in their behavior, particularly as those hostile foreign fellows with the interferometers keep “tickling” the grid now and then, or — in other words — poking the rabbit and watching him jump out of his skin in response.
In April 1997 then Secretary of Defense Cohen made this statement:
“Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that’s why this is so important.” Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.
Since then, not a single electrical engineering department, Department of Energy, or electrical power industry spokesman has even mentioned that the same weapons systems confirmed as massively engineering the weather right over our heads (since 1976) can and will be used to “tickle” and affect the power grid and lots of other things to make our lives more miserable and gradually do us more and more financial damage.
The public is being assured by many pundits called onto the TV screen that “this is not terrorism, and we have no evidence that…. blah blah blah”. Truth is, we haven’t got a single one of those “analysts” poring over all the data that is even aware of the SecDef’s 1997 statement or the continuing operation of those weapons that killed the Thresher, the Challenger, the Arrow DC-8 in Gander, the TWA-800, etc. Just as we never used any analysts capable of realizing what was going on in the decades long “microwave radiation” of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, responsible for health changes and disease induction in personnel and including responsible for the deaths of three ambassadors, we will not be using any analysts on the “grid system problem” that are aware of what kind of terrorism might actually have been used. Of course it may have been an act of nature. And it also could have been a deliberate stimulus. The present analysts are not equipped to even deal with the latter possibility (even probability, considering that the weapons are there, they are confirmed by a SecDef himself, etc.).
After manipulating our weather for 27 years, one should not be surprised that the distant interferometers may start manipulating a few other “contiguous” large systems which are only fragilely controlled and are subject to easy stimulation for massive failures and damage. They’ve given us the forest fires, etc., tornadoes, and other nice weather effects to make life miserable.
It would also be a good test of some of the later KGB systems of quite different design and functioning.
Meanwhile, the great energy consortium continues along its way, much like the old Titanic that it is, and headed for the icebergs dead ahead.
Best wishes,
Tom Bearden