Hi, Edmund...no, I had not noticed I'm embarrassed to say. Would you keep us posted, i.e., report here what you learn when you learn why? Here on the Left Coast, we were more interested in whatever prompted the following...
Fair Use, etc...
Power Line Sabotaged in Oregon
The Associated Press as reported by Washington Post
Friday, Dec. 31, 1999; 1:19 p.m. EST
BEND, Ore. A large tower holding a line that carries electricity from
the Pacific Northwest to California was toppled in an act of sabotage,
officials said today.
Bonneville Power Administration spokesman Perry Gruber said a
computer re-routed power less than one second after the high-voltage line
dropped at 8:53 p.m. Thursday.
No customers lost power.
"We've had towers collapse before, but never as the result of malicious
mischief like this," Gruber said.
David Szady, special agent in charge of the FBI's Portland office, said
there was "no evidence or intelligence that this was Y2K- or
millennial-related."
Gruber refused to say how the tower ? which he said is between 80 and
200 feet tall ? was taken down. The FBI said the tower was brought
down without the use of explosives, but declined to give further details.
Authorities had no suspects.
The BPA's transmission grid covers 300,000 square miles of Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and western Montana.
The BPA's intertie system, including the line that was damaged, enables
Northwest utilities to buy and sell power from British Columbia to the
Mexican border. Other connections link it to the Missouri Valley grid.
¸ Copyright 1999 The Associated Press
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I have extended family actually living in Bend. I imagine we'll be visiting by phone today. Will be interesting to learn if they heard or saw anything.
Sitting here greatly GREATLY relieved and grateful to the dedicated men and women, not just globally, but here in the USofA, who brought this thing in on time...sure was a lot of money thrown at the "upgrade/update."
Looking forward to getting back into the trading game, which doesn't care whether I'm long or short...just want to know if it is "moving" and has a .com<grin>
Me? I have a lot of "site certificates" expired on both my browsers and have to see what new upgrades are instore to quit getting all these damn certificate insecure server notices pop up screens every 20 seconds it seems like.
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