Chicago power failure update ...
On Tuesday [Aug 17], ComEd revealed that its infrastructure problems are far worse than we had been told: 164 "major" problems and 1,200 "minor" problems. They all need to be fixed ...
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In June, ComEd announced that it had completed its $32 million Y2K program.
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Following article re Chicago problems has nothing to do with Y2K. But, it does show cascading problems with "fix" after failure..
The owner of a frame shop two doors down, Charles Thomas, was the first to suspect the market had a problem.
At 11 p.m. on Sunday, July 25, it didn't take much sleuthing: The lights in the store's parking lot had burst into
flames. [...]
A few minutes earlier, the light bulbs in Thomas' apartment had burst -- Pop! Pop! Pop! -- like a shelf full of green tomatoes that weren't canned right. His three television sets blew out too.
The apparent source of the cacophony? A new electrical transformer that a ComEd crew had placed behind The
Food Exchange building at 7162 S. Exchange Ave., just a few blocks from the old South Shore Country Club ...
The Food Exchange smelled like burned rubber when he re-entered the store. Everywhere Kamberos looked, expensive equipment had melted into electronic mulch: a $5,000 security system, expensive fluorescent-light
ballasts at $300 a pair, his automatic door system, a freezer compressor, some scales and cash registers ...
chicagotribune.com
More power outages in Chicago's western suburbs today ...
Cheryl
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