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Peter Nitschke
JunkFilterer
South Australia
GT4.0 V8
Posts: 4918
Reg: 11-2004
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I see you guys had a cool weekend in NZ.
Good for driving Soarers? |
Dave Hart
DieHard
Waikato
UZZ32
Posts: 681
Reg: 08-2005
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Yeh, don't know who came off worse, the SI or Auckland. |
Don Bagnall
Moderator
New Zealand
I have LESS Soarers than Hayden :-(
Posts: 3827
Reg: 05-2005
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Auckland lost all power at about 8:30am Monday morning.......including traffic lights....THAT musta been entertaining  |
Peter Nitschke
JunkFilterer
South Australia
GT4.0 V8
Posts: 4924
Reg: 11-2004
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Might not have mattered, hard to stop with all that snow and ice on the roads  |
Mike Beck
TryHard
New Zeland
Honda
Posts: 453
Reg: 11-2005
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Don Bagnall wrote on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 07:09 pm:Auckland lost all power at about 8:30am Monday morning.......including traffic lights....THAT musta been entertaining
Hmm well, I was driving along in my neat 5 cylinder Honda (featuring a sporty BFI) through a set of working lights at around 8:25. At 8:27 or so the next set of lights I got to were out! I just thought it may have been a slight problem with that set but once I got to my destination I found out the entire story!
My house only got power back on at 7.02pm, No power for 10 1/2 hours! 
Talk about ridiculous. One main cable lost or something and this is what we get!
Reminds me of 1998, the year Auckland suffered that major Power cut that ran for 5 weeks in the CBD due to 4 or 5 60 year old power cables in the ground failing! |
Don Bagnall
Moderator
New Zealand
I have LESS Soarers than Hayden :-(
Posts: 3829
Reg: 05-2005
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Yeah, that was crazy........whole companies shifting out of the CBD to the burbs and industrial areas, just so they could continue operating...........totally nuts!!!!.
All we had in New Plymouth was MAJOR wind gusts, MAJOR rain, and the odd power flicker..........made for an entertaining drive to work...... but Soarer just sailed through it all, oblivious to stalled cars on the side of the road HeHe.
It's cool to drive a Soarer!!!! |
Darryn Dewar
TryHard
Gisborne
UZZ30 Soarer
Posts: 289
Reg: 09-2005
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Weather?? What weather??  Although it looks like my ps pump is starting to dribble  |
Hanré Van Rensburg
TryHard
Auckland
Soarer TT
Posts: 287
Reg: 08-2005
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The bleedn power surges we had here in Auckers fried my pc at home...
Preventative Maintanance Tip #1: Buy a bloody surge protector! |
Peter Nitschke
JunkFilterer
South Australia
GT4.0 V8
Posts: 4931
Reg: 11-2004
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Usually the surges involved with power lines coming down won't be stopped by domestic surge protectors. |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 1098
Reg: 10-2005
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My work has a large generator, so we kept running unfortunately. Soarer drives fine - actually with its streamlining and weight, its the perfect car for high winds. |
Dave Hart
DieHard
Waikato
UZZ32
Posts: 684
Reg: 08-2005
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Next time you see a power pylon look at the very apex of those towers and you'll see a single cable stretched from one to another. Those are there to capture any lightning strikes. The same in switchyards above the bus. At the Otahuhu switchyard one of those snapped and with the high winds it flicked across the live phases taking out the breakers on earth protection.
As for the the fact most of Auckland is fed through the Otahuhu switchyard you only need look at the geography of Auckland to see there's not much room to put another one especially with those 'nimby's'. Also there's no generation now from north of Auckland to feed in from there.
Good old Greens eh, not that they're bothered about Auckland. |
Wayne Mackay
Tinkerer
Canterbury
Soarer UZZ 31 GT-L
Posts: 31
Reg: 07-2005
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Talk to the people in the South Island who've been without power for a couple of days now and see if they give a rats arse about Auckland?
(oh that's right,you can't talk to them 'cause the power's out as well as cell phone towers!)Just wanted to speak out for those who can't after all the bleating about poor old Auckland out of power for five minutes |
Perry Morgan
Goo Roo
Qld
UZZ32 ( V8 )
Posts: 1244
Reg: 07-2005
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I wasn't aware you pig islanders had power to lose in the first place Wayne.  |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 1102
Reg: 10-2005
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Hate to say it, but while its probably very inconvenient for Southlanders without power at the moment, not to mention very uncomfortable (and possibly dangerous for some) - its doesn't cost $100,000,000 per day, nor affect 700,000 or more people. Auckland without power is bad news for the whole country financially, and thats why its big news. |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 1103
Reg: 10-2005
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Perry Morgan wrote on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 11:02 am:I wasn't aware you pig islanders had power to lose in the first place Wayne
Yeah Perry, they pump it all north for us!  |
Mark Donovan
Tinkerer
Auckland
Soarer V8 Limited
Posts: 66
Reg: 07-2005
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i was in at work by 7.30am and so our phones and network went out with the power, but the computers remained on thanks to the UPS. We eventually got the word to go home at 10.30am and i spent the rest of the day and tuesday in bed getting over a cold.
i remember 98 as well- i was just starting university in auckland so had to climb 10 flights of stairs each day to get to my room in the hall of residence. It's a pathetic and embarrassing situation, but I'd really like to know the root cause - is it because not enough money has been invested in the infrastructure or because there isn't the money there to invest. It would actually be a challenge to think of one type of infrastructure in Auckland that is up to scratch!
Road? Rail? Communications? Power? Public transport?
HA! what a joke. |
Don Bagnall
Moderator
New Zealand
I have LESS Soarers than Hayden :-(
Posts: 3838
Reg: 05-2005
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I'm glad we moved to New Plymouth in 94.
I could see Auckland starting to go downhill with all the congestion and crap happening, like Bastion Point and other political bollocks, which we "Enjoy" to this day 
Sadly it's not the Auckland that I was born and raised in any more |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 1108
Reg: 10-2005
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It's due to years of ineptness by local bodies and governments alike.
I still love West Auckland and always will. As I work in Onehunga and live in Titirangi I don't usually have to deal with the traffic - but when I do, it does drive me nuts. |
Dave Hart
DieHard
Waikato
UZZ32
Posts: 686
Reg: 08-2005
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I've been told that it was lightning that struck that earth cable. This brings up another problem which is, those cables are designed to take care of lightning strikes so why did it break and ipso facto are all other earth cables vulnerable? |
Darryn Dewar
TryHard
Gisborne
UZZ30 Soarer
Posts: 290
Reg: 09-2005
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The story I got was one of the earth cables for lightning protection broke free and clipped a hot line |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 1115
Reg: 10-2005
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Darryn, thats the story I heard, the news this morning claimed it was caused by a D bracket failure. |
Don Bagnall
Moderator
New Zealand
I have LESS Soarers than Hayden :-(
Posts: 3860
Reg: 05-2005
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De braacket Maaan!, it failed Maaan |
Mark Donovan
Tinkerer
Auckland
Soarer V8 Limited
Posts: 67
Reg: 07-2005
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••, queet eet, jamaican me craaayze. |
Don Bagnall
Moderator
New Zealand
I have LESS Soarers than Hayden :-(
Posts: 3864
Reg: 05-2005
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Hey Neil,........you'll lurve Waikikamukau (Why kick a moo-cow) then  |
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