re: The lights have been on at a Mass. school for over a year because no one can turn them off

A related story happened to a travel ball coach friend of mine. They were paying an evening game last fall at some park in Mississippi... I don't rememebr exactly where. The fields had all LED lighting.

The LED lighting was controlled by a computer at City Hall, which supposedly ran on some sort of a time program. City Hall was 3 miles away. No one at the ballfields had any ability to turn off or turn on the lights or otherwise overide the computer.

Well... something happens and the park loses power (Maybe it was in an Entergy MS area). About 4 min later, power comes back. But no lights.

Restoring power did not turn the lights back on. Someone had to go into the computer program at City Hall to do something to turn them on.

City Hall is closed on a Saturday evening. So they had to track down some city worker who could get into City Hall and who knew how the computer system worked, to go there and turn the ballfield lights on. Some guy had to leave dinner to go do all that. Took 90 min from when the power came back on, to when the lights came back on.

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Find the breaker, flip it off every night. Profit. This isn't complicated folks. Presumably there are things like refrigerators that need to stay on.

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I guarantee I could go to the breaker box, trace the wires to the computer software that controls it, bypass computer, and run wires to each room and install a switch pretty damn easily and I’m not even a certified electrician