re: Cat knocks out power to thousands in Mid-City, Broadmoor, Entergy says

Posted by cypresstiger

The South

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 10:56 am to Jim Rockford

curtail

good one

Posted by member12

Bob's Country Bunker

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 11:01 am to Hangover Haven

Didn't that happen to the Sugar Bowl a few years ago?

Posted by Hangover Haven

Metry

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 11:03 am to member12

Super Bowl...

This post was edited on 9/17/18 at 11:05 am

Posted by LaBR4

Baton Rouge

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 11:06 am to mindbreaker

Posted by Mudminnow

Houston, TX

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 11:14 am to LaBR4

Wonder what fee Entergy will tack on to its customers after this outage.

I enjoy energy deregulation in TX and cheap electric

Posted by TheFonz

Somewhere in Louisiana

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 11:30 am to Boudreaux35

quote:
Pics of the cat. Current ones, pls.

Posted by Miketheseventh

Member since Dec 2017

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 11:48 am to Hangover Haven

Entergy making good on a post on here from two days agp.

LINK

Posted by d6k

New Orleans

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 12:02 pm to t00f

quote:
Yep got a text from Ursuline that they lost power but got another one like 40 mins later it came back on.

I received the same text...

Posted by Geauxboy

NW Arkansas

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 12:40 pm to Hangover Haven

If that cat had nine lives it sure used them all.

Posted by 3nOut

I don't really care, Margaret

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Posted on 9/17/18 at 1:16 pm to Hangover Haven

a barely related but anecdotal story.

a few years back i was working in IT for a school district. i was in the deer blind the day after thanksgiving and my boss called that all the power was down for the district and all email and other super unimportant shite that people shouldn't care about on Thanksgiving break was down. He asked me to head back early and I could take Monday off.

so i go get my arse chewing from my wife and we pack of the kids and head back home. i get them settled and go up to the school. it's about 25 degrees out. i get into the server room and it's well over 100. all of our AC and vents died but the servers came back up. so 100+ servers and things of network equipment up, but no AC. i finally get somebody from maintenance over and get them to start looking at it. shut everything down so it would cool off until AC came back on.

ended up losing 2-300k of servers. finally maintenance gets it back on and asks me to come outside. they point to a singed squirrel. lying on the ground. it had gotten a good bite and managed to trip the breakers and take out the whole building.

TL;DR

squirrel bit power line and took down my entire network and cost us 100s of Ks worth of network equipment and servers due to overheating. bastard died though so at least i got that bit of karma.