The Great Halwill Junction Blackout Saga

Storm Darragh arrived in the West Country yesterday. causing carnage far and wide. Here is how the Devon and Cornwall section of National Grid Electricity Distribution’s power cut map looked at 4 PM:

Somewhat later, here’s how NGED’s table of regional power outages looked:

77 of the 58,423 properties in the South West without an electricity supply were just up the road from us near Chilla:

By 8:30 PM the NGED power cut map was awash with outages:

while our local area looked like this:

The power cut in Chilla was rather confusingly located in Hatherleigh according to the map!

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Hurricane Sally Heads for Louisiana

Louisiana still hasn’t recovered from the damage caused by the passage of Hurricane Laura last month. Here’s how the state’s power outage map looks this morning (UTC):

Now yet another storm is heading for the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Sally is forecast to increase in strength to hurricane force before crossing the coast further to the east than Laura:

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Storm Francis Follows Hot on the Heels of Ellen

At the moment I’m too busy writing about the seemingly never ending sequence of power cuts due to “extreme weather” events to wax lyrical about developments in vehicle-to-grid technology!

In California the heat wave is over and rolling blackouts a thing of the past, for the moment at least. However the wildfires continue, and the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory is temporarily closed:

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