Thread: Big storm and no power in SA

Originally Posted by bee utey

Our power's been out since around midnight, widespread blackouts across the state, 73mm in the gauge and ADSL is out. Slept right through it. Luckily backup power and mobile internet is working just fine this morning. Have the windmills knocked out power in Western Victoria yet?

We don't need them. Shut them down in case they get damaged. Hazelwood keeps the state going through the storms.
SA should have kept Leigh Creek running.
Reliable power here.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

We don't need them. Shut them down in case they get damaged. Hazelwood keeps the state going through the storms.
SA should have kept Leigh Creek running.
Reliable power here.

Aah yes, coal mines 500km away stop the trees from blowing onto the powerlines all over the state. Must be all the thick greasy smoke in the air, like oil on water.

No outages at all, fancy that...

https://www.powercor.com.au/power-outages/

Originally Posted by bee utey

Aah yes, coal mines 500km away stop the trees from blowing onto the powerlines all over the state. Must be all the thick greasy smoke in the air, like oil on water.

grease is a lubricant, its aresolised and carried by the wind the grease gets on the trees and then the wind just slides right by due to a lack of friction. No friction no force so the trees keep standing.

This is the real reasons the greenies are against the dino burning stations. the oil in the air gets on the blades of the wind mills making the air slide off the blades reducing the efficiency of them making them seem economically nonviable due to low power output.

Originally Posted by bee utey

Aah yes, coal mines 500km away stop the trees from blowing onto the powerlines all over the state. Must be all the thick greasy smoke in the air, like oil on water.

No outages at all, fancy that...

https://www.powercor.com.au/power-outages/

Didn't take out the whole state. Power unaffected here.
Yep, very reliable.

Still a lot better in Vic per capita and overall..

Talk about carnage!! Pager dropped at 01:15.. Was lying awake for the inevitable! From 01:30 to 06:00 was spent clearing and opening all roads into/out of Williamstown, 06:00 until now was spent dealing with the 'muppet' callouts... "My trampoline is on the roof, my drive is blocked, there's a giant (6' long) tree on my roof" etc etc etc!!! None of them have the will to get of their arses and tend to their blocks!! Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

With ya there Sitec, I was up all night, had leaking house roof, 10m section of asbestos fence blew over, shed roof flapping...no way was I going to bother SES for that, I dealt with it. 2hrs sleep lastnight, and all day today cleaning up. Joys of property ownership! After seeing the news tonight, I consider myself one of the lucky ones...glad I didn't bother the SES.

Originally Posted by Sitec

Talk about carnage!! Pager dropped at 01:15.. Was lying awake for the inevitable! From 01:30 to 06:00 was spent clearing and opening all roads into/out of Williamstown, 06:00 until now was spent dealing with the 'muppet' callouts... "My trampoline is on the roof, my drive is blocked, there's a giant (6' long) tree on my roof" etc etc etc!!! None of them have the will to get of their arses and tend to their blocks!! Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

All of our deck chairs blew over. Are you sure the SES won't come and set them up again for me?

We copped a shellacking last night. 112mm overnight. Wind like nothing else! Multiple trees down across the property. One missed the MAN by about a metre, so that was lucky. Creek overflowed and washed away parts of the driveway. So we spent most of the day chainsawing things and building a huge bonfire pile. Power went around 1:30AM. Still not back on, so running everything on our gennie.

Hope you have a quieter night tonight. Many thanks to blokes like you that get amongst it and help out others.