Power Outage Hits South Florida - UPDATE
Monica Hatcher and Martin Merzer write in The Miami Herald:
Power outages are cascading through many parts of South Florida, with Florida Power & Light and others reporting blackouts in portions of Miami, Doral, Westchester, Pembroke Pines, Miramar and Boca Raton.More here.
Many traffic lights are not working and nine accidents were reported in Miami-Dade County between 1:04 p.m. and 1:26 p.m. Police agencies were dispatching officers to as many intersections as possible.
The lights flickered off at several South Florida hospitals, which had to switch to generator power.
''We had a blip here and the generators kicked in immediately,'' Jackson Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Lorraine Nelson said.
Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach and Baptist Hospital in Southwest Miami-Dade reported similar situations.
A spokeswoman for FPL said the company was investigating the extent and cause of the problem.
CNN is reporting on television that eight (8) power generation plants are "down"... Stay tuned. -ferg
UPDATE: 11:51 PST: CNN now has more of a "developing story" URL available here. Apparentlt, this outage is much larger than first reported... -ferg
posted by Fergie @ 2/26/2008 10:53:00 AM
5 Comments:
Power outages are across the whole state and NOT just in South Florida. How hard is that to report?
Everyone keeps saying 4.4 million people were affected. That is how many people FPL serves in TOTAL. There were actually about 600,000 to 800,000 customers who were affected by the blackout.
CNN - You make it sound that it is because of bad weather. There is some bad weather, we did not have an outage because of bad weather. Get it straight.
Good question, WHAT BAD WEATHER????
The front comes thru later today. Do they even have a clue that there are outages in the panhandle too? Come on CNN, get the story straight!
Actually, there was some sever weather in the Ft. Lauderdale area earlier today:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/
...but probably was not responsible for any power outages related to this wide-spread incident.
- ferg
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