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Fridays Power Outage....

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  • 30-07-2005 7:07pm
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    mike65
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    Anyone know what happened there? It was decribed as a major fault by ESB and happened at 07.00 hrs and here (Cherrymount) lasted about 25 mins I know it was nearly an hour for Riverview area.

    Mike.


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    Mossy Monk
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    cant say i noticed anything :D

    7 o clock on Friday morning i was fast asleep


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    AdMMM
    Registered Users Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭AdMMM


    I do know that my shower stopped working at about that time on Friday... just after I put all the lynx shower gel on me :/ . What a pain in the ass!


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    fade2black
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    gone again today


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I saw on aertel that its quite widespead but not huge numbers 200,000 (well thats quite big of course!). So many clocks to reset!

    Mike.


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    Mossy Monk
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    it didnt go off here at all as the Sky box wasnt on channel 998 when i woke up


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    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Apparently a sub-station in Wexford failed, and the ESB were immediatley dispatched to rectify the problem which houses across the South-East also being affected.


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    Rabies
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    Power outage in parfts of thurles also. went from 6-7pm. ESB said about 200 homes in the area lost power.


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    angry_fox
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    mike65 wrote:
    happened at 07.00 hrs and here (Cherrymount) lasted about 25 mins I know it was nearly an hour for Riverview area.

    Mike.

    My pc turned on by itself that morning, could that have been the reason?

    Please say it is


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