I was stunned to hear about such a big power outage over parts of England and Wales on the news.

Anyone suffer from this ?

Sounded pretty dire with the number of folk affected. 

I've been expecting problems here because of the threatened thunderstorms.....But those all seem to have passed us by......SO FAR.
(I expect the gales we've been threatened with, will bring some trees down on the lines, because I've written this !!  )

Cheers - Phil

Thankfully no, it's been relatively quiet here in Bristol so far, but the wind is really picking up now, with some furious gusts. SWMBO got lucky travelling to London as she arrived just before all the trouble began.

My step brother and wife are stuck in Amsterdam on holiday...
Luck gits.

Quote from: Steve J on 10 August 2019, 08:27:02 AM
Thankfully no, it's been relatively quiet here in Bristol so far, but the wind is really picking up now, with some furious gusts.

Only slightly 'wild and wooly' here......But VERY dark......Seems more like 9 in the evening, than half ten in the morning.

You're better half 'did well', Steve. ......You can keep the furious gusts in Bristol.  .........Or have those track to the East of us.

Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 August 2019, 08:30:39 AM
My step brother and wife are stuck in Amsterdam on holiday...

Is that 'cos of the BA computer glitches, Will ?

Cheers - Phil

Was at home at the time.
Lights went out, house alarms went off, mobiles lost service. Power was off for about 15-20 mins.
No Aliens landed and no Mushroom clouds.
Traffic lights going off must have been nasty. No casualties have been announced, lessons learned hopefully.  

Easy Jet into Brizzle, so too high and unpredictable winds

No problems here, Merseyrail running fine in the morning southward anyway. Only heard about it on PM - quite surprised as we had little or no rain yesterday. Mind you it was hammering down at about 05.30, woke me up.

Storm, what storm, touch of heavy rain.

Had to wear sun cream yesterday but probably won't need it today.

But then Edinburgh is like that.

Here in N.Merseyside no power cut, but out and about I had to deal with 8 heavy showers, and now I'm home we've just had no.9.

Here in NI we were meant to have heavy rain and thunderstorms  but it just drizzled a bit

What we learned:
* The grid appears to be specced to run on N+1 fault tolerance.
* Now we have a lot of digital stuff, the duration of interruption is less significance than the time for your stuff to reboot: Your PC, your home, their train.
* Cloud consumers are slaves to the time for their cloud provide to reboot, or the network to stabilize.
* Big organisations that had on-site UPS and generators have found out the value of their monthly drills.
* The information systems will never keep up with demand during an incident - people have largely been replaced by digital resources (digital resources that run on electricity).

Response seems about as good as can be expected.
* Power restored within an hour, and no subsequent domino effect.

I'm sure there will be lots of hectic meetings during the next week in which disaster preparedness is reviewed.

From the somewhat apocalyptic forecasts, we didn't really suffer from the weather in the slightest !

Yes.....It rained a tiny bit....It was windy......But nothing like gale force.

'They' do seem to be rather over egging the forecasts nowadays.
They get it right in the respect that some poor souls DO get a hell of a storm.....But it always appears to be far less widespread than is predicted.

Quote from: howayman on 10 August 2019, 09:48:33 AM
No Aliens landed and no Mushroom clouds.
Traffic lights going off must have been nasty. No casualties have been announced, lessons learned hopefully. 

Yes.....Hopefully !! ....and excellent that no one seems to have been injured.

Next time the Aliens land here......I'll tell them to pop over and say 'wotcha !'

The only thing that's had a downside here, in the last week, is that my training for the Olympics has been thrown into total chaos.
I was hoping to qualify for the downhill vehicular pot-hole slalom......But they've resurfaced the whole of the local village.

(More of a shock was the speed in which they did it !!.....I thought there would be traffic control for weeks and weeks.....But they did the job in eight days !!....Most impressive !!)

Cheers - Phil 

It dont take long to fill holes in a gravel track Phil 

To be fair to them, Ian  .....They stripped the surface on both sides of the road, and put the new surface down........Must be the best part of a mile, in just over a week.....And they HAVE done a damn good job !! 

The 'track' that goes from Techno Towers to the village IS another matter. They just randomly dump 'filler' in the holes.......Then I think they must stamp it down with just their feet !!

We get quite a number of cyclists going back and forth past us....and how they don't end up wrecking their bikes is beyond me !!

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 11 August 2019, 07:36:41 AM
To be fair to them, Ian  .....They stripped the surface on both sides of the road, and put the new surface down........Must be the best part of a mile, in just over a week.....And they HAVE done a damn good job !! 

Great, but give it a couple of weeks and the local electric/gas/water/phone supplier will be along to dig a trench in it, and suddenly you've got bumps and repairs, and in a couple of years they'll have turned into potholes again.

(looks with sadness at the once-pristine road surface that goes past my front window . . .)