Raider apparently was working a condo site adjacent to my office, ironically a construction company, full of engineers, even we couldn't fix this mess. Lol

http://m.firstcoastnews.com/TopStories/article?a=8046593&f=2040

9:30 ish this morning, got to leave work at 10:45. Family fun day, beach and gator farm.

Thank you raider!

250' of high voltage cable burnt up, power still off due back on 8 am something like 6 city blocks.

Raider apparently was working a condo site adjacent to my office, ironically a construction company, full of engineers, even we couldn't fix this mess. Lolhttp://m.firstcoastnews.com/TopStories/article?a=8046593&f=2040

9:30 ish this morning, got to leave work at 10:45. Family fun day, beach and gator farm.

Thank you raider!

250' of high voltage cable burnt up, power still off due back on 8 am something like 6 city blocks.

Wasn't me. I ain't made up my mind about going to lineman school yet. I work where the power is generated. Not transmitted.

Ha! So you only do power plants? Thought u did industrial?

Ha! So you only do power plants? Thought u did industrial?

I'm power house hopping right now. Its keeping me close to home. I prefer pharma plants, refineries, and manufacturing plants. Alabama Power is doing upgrades to their coal burnering plants coinciding with the outages on the boilers. We are completely gutting three control rooms. Rerouting all the existing cables and adding new cables into three new control rooms. The company I'm with is doing two of the control rooms. We are supposed to be pulling close to 860 miles of new multi conductor cable for the two rooms we are working on. Plus new cable tray and lots of aluminum conduit. We are supposed to be done by October. Heck we just started this job three weeks ago.

Gotta watch the EU and tree hugging hippies hating on the coal. But I can't complain I been working on pellet mills across the SE so they can ship overseas. I mostly do aerospace and food/drug type manufacturing facilities. Staying close to home is a good thing. Take it easy I now know one less power vault fire can be attributed to you

Those power outages are rare but when the happen, it takes a LONG time to repair. Everybody likes their electric lines underground, but they don't understand how much longer the restoration times are with underground.

It takes me and two other guys about an hour to replace an overhead transformer, about three to replace a pad mount transformer (an above ground transformer for underground cables). Put that same pad mount transformer in an underground vault and ... Ugh, what a pain in the Aston Martin. Now you're talking confined space certifications, air monitors, water, etc, etc. It's a nightmare.

I'd rather climb a 200' tower than work 10' underground in a vault.

They got work and a few other buildings up and running, however several buildings will be out until noon ish......They guys from Jason's Deli was livid on the news all his meat is rotting. 

They got work and a few other buildings up and running, however several buildings will be out until noon ish......They guys from Jason's Deli was livid on the news all his meat is rotting.

Buy a generator. If there is that much at stake in an outage, it is easy to justify.