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One Reason Why New Orleans Is Without Power

One of the reasons New Orleans is without power. This transmission line that runs across the Mississippi River from Avondale to Harahan had a collapsed tower. Lines are literally in the River.
h/t Louie

22 Comments on One Reason Why New Orleans Is Without Power

  1. When you live in a place like Idaho Falls Idaho and you get hit with a Hurricane force storm one can understand why the infrastructure failed. When you live in a place where you know this can, not to say it will but can, happen every year and even more than once in the same year one would think you would build things up to code AND that “code” would account for hurricane level forces.

    But that is me, I use logic and commons sense and cursed to be forced to see the world as reality dictates it and hence I could never be a Democrat and Democrats have a strangle hold on New Orleans so every time it gets hit by a storm the city acts like this has never happened before.

    If they started to publicly execute politicians who squander public funds then maybe that city would start building things that could withstand a storm.

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  2. We lose power 2 to 5 times a year. Usually only for a couple of hours and that’s why I have a generator parked to get it on the deck in a couple of minutes….

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  3. Same here. I have a 10,000 Watt, 2 5000 Watt, and a 2200 that’s quiet as heck

    for Nighttime. Plus 27 gallons of Rec 90 (Non-Ethanol Fuel)…Another 65 Gallons

    in the Boat…and always have two full Propane Tanks.

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  4. Meanwhile, the Uniparty keeps dicking around with this “human infrastucture” bullshit. Texas Republicans caught holy hell last winter when their grid went down during a massive storm, but do you think any of the Chocolate City and Louisiana government grifters will be held to account for anything related to this storm. Hell no, they won’t. I bet they got their “human infrastructure” all paid off.

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  5. I have friends in Louisiana. They moved out of New Orleans but were still in the path of Ida. They’re okay, thankfully, but they said the wind was wicked. They were worried about falling trees. No power, but at least they’re okay. Another friend in MS went to stay with his brother, where they also said the wind was horrific. He can’t get back home yet, but he figures there is water damage. Praying for all in the path of this storm.

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  6. Will they hold Bidenmytime responsible for the damage from Ida like they held Bush responsible for the damage from Katrina? I know they’ll blame it on Trump, but I can dream, can’t I?

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  7. from the video on the nightly news, it was an old, rusted tower.
    Better to let it fall and have insurance pay to replace it (or the gov’t) than to reduce the bottom line last year paying for the replacement themselves.

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  8. I got really mad at the frequent outages in my corner of Louisiana. Put on my white knight suit and went to war with the idiots at SWEPCO. One of the things I found and pointed out in numerous letters was that we use a power system that uses 100 year old engineering, has not advanced in years. As it did no good protesting I bought a generator, now I don’t care what they do.

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  9. I’m one of the hillbillies working on this mess. All transmission feeders coming into NOLA are down – no source voltage, no power at the substations, and ultimately no distribution power at residences and businesses. Should any of the step down transformers at the various substations have failed, those are custom items that are manufactured to order and require a crane and temporary “train tracks” just to set – lead time used to be (supplies and shipping is wonky nowadays) 8 months after order. Any downed substations would have to switched around limiting carry capacity. The local utility company for NOLA doesn’t even know or has documented the scope of damage to the lines but will have a vague starting point as of 9/1. They will not have sufficient materials to work these lines for probably 2-3 weeks (again wonky supplies and shipping). Par/Quantas is sending essentially every piece of transmission equipment they have in NA to NOLA so transmission will go as fast as it can. The tower shown above is probably 140′ plus and will need new concrete bases (which will have to cure). This is not something the locals will have in inventory, something will have to be scabbed together temporarily. A great deal of transmission and distribution in the area will need to be completely replaced with new lines and structures. Most of these cats think we’ll get released in 6 weeks, I’ve not seen enough to call it.

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