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How is this affecting EZE and AEP?
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Hope my friends down there are ok. |
Yikes. Do you mean that the entire country is experiencing blackouts or is completely without power? The latter sounds impossible as hospital patients would be dying etc. |
Things got interesting but nothing overly dramatic. In my case, I was without power for approx 4.5 hours. Hospitals have back up generators, etc. and as far as Ive seen there have not been any power outage related casualties. The exact causes of the outage have not yet been announced, the government is looking into this and details will be forthcoming.
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To answer the above question, I think this was Physics related - not political.
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
(Post 31209985)
Yikes. Do you mean that the entire country is experiencing blackouts or is completely without power? The latter sounds impossible as hospital patients would be dying etc. |
We were without power for six hours , although I know some freinds who had nothing for 12.
It was alittle surreal . the City was quiet as it was Sunday . Most traffic lights were out but the rain kept most people inside. No trains or subway . A few buses were running . Some shops with generators were open The airports worked normally with some delays. |
Originally Posted by skywardhunter
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I'd really hope hospitals don't depend on national grid availability
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Originally Posted by malagajohn
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The airports worked normally with some delays. |
Originally Posted by Eastbay1K
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Meanwhile the ILS went out at AEP this morning.
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
(Post 31209985)
Yikes. Do you mean that the entire country is experiencing blackouts or is completely without power? The latter sounds impossible as hospital patients would be dying etc. Nothing is impossible, and something like this could easily occur regionally in the USA, or in most any part of the developed world. It doesn't take much inattention for very long, or system hacking. |
Airports and ATC relied on power generators during the blackout. There were some delays but other than that it was business as usual. We are somehow used to smaller power shortages, which are less common these days but used to happen once every few months until some years ago. Hospitals, emergency services, etc. all have generators and as far as I know there were no casualties related to the blackout. There were a few minor traffic accidents in Buenos Aires, though, as all traffic lights went out of service and it was raining. When I woke up yesterday and saw on the phone that the whole country was off-grid I thought it would take several days to recover, but overall at home in Recoleta we were without power for 5 hours so it wasn’t that bad. Tierra del Fuego was the only province which remained with power during the blackout. A side effect of being an island, they are not connected to the national electricity grid. |
Power outages were VERY common during the Kirchner regime. Things have gotten pretty much back to normal now, so this outage was a "big deal", and the opposition has been trying to make political use of the event. The Government has promised to release the findings of a complete investigation in 15 days, stay tuned....
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According to news reports 30,000 people in Buenos Aires are still without electricity.
Seems to be as a result of faults that occurred with the big national blackout and posssibly heavy rain - hasnt stopped for the last couple of days. |
Originally Posted by malagajohn
(Post 31212974)
heavy rain - hasnt stopped for the last couple of days.
(Also, perhaps the thread title could be edited to include "Massive power outage of 16 June 2019") |
We had no power from 7am. to 7 pm. As it was Sunday we were still in bed sleeping so just continued. To be honest although not as common as they used to be we get power cuts quite regularly so are prepared for them....we had a two hour one the previous week.
The results of the inquiry will be interesting. |
It happens sometimes in the USA too. I was at Santa Fe for a business trip when the entire state of New Mexico went dark. There were bad traffic jams as all of the red lights were out. My hotel offered a buffet dinner that night, using food that could be cooked on charcoal grills. At the time (IIRC Saturday afternoon), I was driving along the Turquoise Trail from Los Alamos and couldn't understand why everything looked closed and dark in the little towns, especially shops oriented toward tourists, when it was only about 5 pm. |
Thank you for sharing this. You are a "rara avis" in that you don't have the selective memory that many world travelers have when it comes to these issues. Over the many years of Moderating these forums, Ive sometimes gotten the feeling that strikes, traffic jams, or other potential inconveniences only happen in Argentina... :D Mind me, Im fully aware that we have more than out "fair share" of mishaps in this Country, but its a breath of fresh air to see that there are folks out there that call things the way they are... ^ ^ ^
Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
(Post 31223285)
It happens sometimes in the USA too. I was at Santa Fe for a business trip when the entire state of New Mexico went dark. There were bad traffic jams as all of the red lights were out. My hotel offered a buffet dinner that night, using food that could be cooked on charcoal grills. At the time (IIRC Saturday afternoon), I was driving along the Turquoise Trail from Los Alamos and couldn't understand why everything looked closed and dark in the little towns, especially shops oriented toward tourists, when it was only about 5 pm. |
But then I remember the big blackout in the NE USA from 1965..... :rolleyes:
And heading to the college gymnasium where portable generators had the lights on.... Just wandering Fred |
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