Electrician Needed in New Orleans.....
Or did one of you DIY guys wire up that football stadium before the Superbowl, and use 14-2 romex for some 1000A mains?????
Good grief, the game was delayed 35 minutes because of a power outage to half the stadium. It's kind of funny, they spend billions of dollars (or more) for that game, and thye cant provide adaquate power.
The problem was not in the stadium itself, but they said it was one of the feeders that powers the stadium. That tells me that there are actually two (or more) feeders, because half the lights stayed on. They never said the exact cause, but my guess would be a blown transformer. Interestingly enough, it occurred right after the halftime, during which there was a huge amount of stage lighting and special effects. My guess would be that was just too much power to furnish. I also wonder what other parts of the city went out. When you think about it, every business, hotel, bar, reataurant, etc. in town was probably running at maximum power.
I have to ask just how much power actually goes to that stadium. It's got to be thousands of amps, and is likely 3 phase. I wouldn't want to have to pay the electric bill!!!
But things like that are never on the news, so no one will ever know. With any luck they will at least disclose the actual fault that caused the outage. Now if it was Janet Jacksons boob that popped out of her dress, we'd know every detail right down the number of freckles on her boob. I'd like to hear more about the cause of the outage, it's interesting to know stuff like that.
If anything, I'm sure the 49ers fans will all blame the power outage for the teams loss. That's what we will likely hear for the next 2 months....
I have to mention that while CBS did a decent job of broadcasting the game, they sure flopped during that outage. I swear those guys just kept repeating the same stuff over and over, and talked over each other far too much. I would have rather seen some more commercials, since SB commercials are the only good ones all year..... This year most were not as good as in the past, but that's just my opinion....
I hope they do a followup on the power outage in the news!