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Engineers have the power!, Oops.
centsworth_II
post Mar 1 2008, 05:01 PM
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I thought some of you engineering types might appreciate (identify with?) this. laugh.gif

Field Engineer's Experiment Triggered Florida Blackout

"Florida's coast-to-coast blackout Tuesday might have been nothing....
But one man tried to figure out what was broken and left roughly
2-million people from Miami to Jacksonville in the dark.
The unnamed engineer, who had 'significant tenure' at the utility,
has been suspended with pay pending a full investigation...."
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- centsworth_II   Engineers have the power!   Mar 1 2008, 05:01 PM
- - nprev   That's one hell of an "oops!", a...   Mar 1 2008, 05:21 PM
- - edstrick   "Oops" is better than "Uhoh", ...   Mar 2 2008, 10:22 AM
- - centsworth_II   Of course "Oops" is my interpretation. I...   Mar 2 2008, 04:22 PM
- - dvandorn   History is replete with examples of small groups o...   Mar 2 2008, 07:48 PM

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