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Topic: Super Bowl Blackout Traced
to Preventative Equipment |
Super Bowl Blackout Traced
to Preventative Equipment
Associated Press, by Kevin McGill
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Posted By:Maryland_Patriot, 2/8/2013 12:44:47 PM
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| New Orleans -- An electrical device that had been installed expressly to prevent a power outage caused the Super Bowl blackout, the stadium´s power company said Friday as it took the blame for the outage that brought the game to a halt for more than a half-hour. Officials of Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., said the device, called a relay, had been installed in switching gear to protect the Superdome from a cable failure between the company´s incoming power line and lines that run into the stadium.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
nimby, 2/8/2013 1:19:03 PM (No. 9165868)
So, a preventive drug for heart attack causes a heart attack?? Go sell some more marshland!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
0658, 2/8/2013 1:39:36 PM (No. 9165910)
Just like a typical government program; it is supposed to help fix a problem but ends up making it worse. 0bamacare comes to mind.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Eljay, 2/8/2013 1:45:41 PM (No. 9165927)
source is assoc press. not credible.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
tip35c, 2/8/2013 2:07:56 PM (No. 9165967)
In other news, the battery which was installed in the Chevy Volt, which was intended to...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fljack, 2/8/2013 2:23:42 PM (No. 9166002)
my.my. I would have thought that with all of the federal funding going into New Orleans that there would have been no change of this happening...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lydwho, 2/8/2013 2:49:17 PM (No. 9166047)
I thought that it was Bush´s fault!!!!
Art
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 2/8/2013 3:12:03 PM (No. 9166076)
Come on. New Orleans can´t make a dam to keep out the Mississippi. That is just dirt and some rocks.
What makes you think they can make a fail proof stadium lighting system.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bob913, 2/8/2013 3:29:06 PM (No. 9166120)
It wasn´t blacked out soon enough!
Beyonce was still seen!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/8/2013 4:23:31 PM (No. 9166207)
#3´s quite right.
#8 is too....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 2/8/2013 4:26:05 PM (No. 9166208)
So it wasn´t because they didn´t have enough wind or solar power at the time as some duckbilled article stated the next day?It was dark during superbowl and even if there was a windmill, it wouldn´t provide enough to keep the (foot)balls warm.
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