Weekly Listening Thread - Oct. 12-16, 2009

[SJ]

taped pizza party

[Spaz]

afternoon dude .

hows the show been so far
for a day off its been alot like work

[Spaz]

taped ??wtf?

[SJ]

yeah that's what bubba said when he started the show... live to tape on wednesday

[SJ]

I been doing a bit off that day off work myself..

[Spaz]

so hes still fucking with the haters ? they are live though ??
working on the day off blows goats...

[SJ]

so hes still fucking with the haters ? they are live though ??
working on the day off blows goats...

I guess?

I have been reading this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003

[Spaz]

i remember that blackout .

[SJ]

had to rent a water pump (the huge ass kind) and wait by the side of a road with it - so we could pump out water from a river - into a huge holding tank... which we then had to water like 300 cattle with...

what a fucking headache... I sat there with the pump so no one would steal it while my dad and a few others transported... looking back on it - we should have rented a fucking pump truck..

[Spaz]

that sucks bigtime..

[SJ]

yep... that blackout was not something I want to relive anytime soon

[Spaz]

i didn't read that whole story there
what was the final cause of it....

[SJ]

the power outage?

they claim it was caused by a station in ohio failing to restart a monitoring device after a surge and re-adjustment, which then caused a cascade effect in power demands...

couple that with a flaw in the core software then controls the alerts - which meant surrounding power stations didn't know that the data they were monitoring was almost a full minute out of sync and that in turn caused these dips and spike and it tripped a bunch of safety measures that automatically disconnected stations from the grid...

there was also some mistake that caused power in ontario and a few states to flow, spike, reverse direction and the flip again - which really fucked things up for us up here

[SJ]

oh and the spike in wattage through the lines causes them to sag - so when they transferred all this load - the lines sagged and touched tree's causing them to short circuit - which then put more demands on lines that couldn't handle the flow - so they were automatically disconnected..

[SJ]

IF you believe all that...

I still think it was an attack...

Europe laughed at us cause of it and our inferior electric system - and then they had something real similar happen... coincidence? or someone proving a point?