Lights out in So Florida

[cowfishrule]

*dark*
hope y'all reefers got your generators runnin.

 

[eaglephot]

Yeah that sucks. With 4.4 million people without power down there, someone here is bound to be one of them. Isn't SWF.com located somewhere in south florida?

 

[aquaknight]

There's spotty outages along the whole east coast from Daytona Beach to Miami. Power here at work in Orlando (darn

) but the house 20 miles east is out. Hopefully it kicks back on soon. The scary part is FPL isn't saying the cause.

 

[cowfishrule]

terrorists testing the network...

 

[aquaknight]

Quote from FPL:
A Florida Power & Light spokesman says the widespread power outages started when the company shut down a nuclear reactor south of Miami for safety reasons, but did not explain further
It's getting scarier....

 

[alix2.0]

we didnt have power all yesterday but... im nowhere near florida...

 

[miaheatlvr]

HEEEELLLLLPPPP,, I cant anything and im afraid of the dark..

 

[teresaq]

My husband works in ft myers, and just called that he will have to work until the power comes back on. He will have to direct traffic. We have power at home though. thank goodness.

 

[digitydash]

Power on here have seen a couple trucks cruising the neiborhood though.I do have generator though if need be.

 

[digitydash]

Here is why a nuclear reactor shut down,
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT

 

[goober_hunter]

well i just got power back. iam far away from miami thought. to everyone else.. good luck

 

[digitydash]

Yours looks weather related.

 

[coraljunky]

Power is on here

And generator is always on standby

 

[goober_hunter]

not yet. iam pretty sure in about a hour or two ill be getting hit hard. its been a beautiful day so far........ hope i dont lose power again.

 

[aquaknight]

Originally Posted by digitydash
http:///forum/post/2491556
Yours looks weather related.
No, OUC, Tampa Electric, and Progress Energy get some of the energy from FPL. They are not able to supply all their customers based on the power they generate so they have cut power to some customers. How that's determined, is beyond me. Or it's cheaper to buy power from FPL then to run their equipment at a higher percent. Either way looks like by 5:30 most of the power should be restored.
Yea that storm is coming quick. Time to head home.

 

[nyyankeees]

Yea, we had very severe T-storms here earlier(about 30 mins. N of Jax, FL) and tornadoes reported in the area. Happened the same time schools were getting out...not good. I went with my friend to pick up her kids, they were slightly traumatized because the whole school had to do a "tornado drill" only it wasn't a drill. Somehow we never lost power though.