Bring the candle over, dear,It’s very hard to see
Shine so I can see the screen of battery TV

Lights are out all over from Daytona to the Keys
Line failure’s marching through Flor’da.

(to the tune of ’Marching Through Georgia’)

Weird story, just breaking now so I suppose some confusion is unavoidable. Massive storms are hitting the northern part of the state, but this outage is in the south, I wasn’t kidding about the “Daytona to the Keys” line (although they say the Keys are coming back on. I’d like to see where the southernmost power plant is before I believe this story.)

Another cascade effect at any rate. Reminds me of the one a few years ago where literally a tree branch down on a transmission line knocked out the whole Northeast from Ohio to New York and other places.

Weren’t we going to beef up the infrastructure after that? Oh, wait…..  Read more