Storms and electricity

[Voltairine]

I caught some of the news about the storms in the eastern U.S. and how people are without power, in the heat as well.

When you have storms in Australia, do you all lose power? Or just those out in the sticks?

[wolty]

We get some doozy storms in Brissy and sometimes lose power. Mostly trees taking power lines down/ lightening strikes.

Up north, Ausloth/ Loubert country they get the odd cyclone that does quite a bit more damage.

It is a scale thing though, the storms in USA were over a larger area.

[Mjt]

Where I am the power goes out fairly often. The lines all run through the bush, so high winds that bring trees down often take the power lines as well.
In town its not so bad, as we have a huge Murray Goulbourn factory so the infrastructure is a bit better.
The longest I can remember it being out was 3 days at our home, but in town was ok.

[Loki]

If they'd made the correct sacrifices to Thor none of this would have happened.

Just saying.

Which gets me thinking, if Thor and Zeus had a fight who would win?

[Iseeyouthere]

Originally Posted by Loki

Which gets me thinking, if Thor and Zeus had a fight who would win?

Hulk.

[Voltairine]

Originally Posted by Mjt

The longest I can remember it being out was 3 days at our home, but in town was ok.

Three days!

[Mjt]

Originally Posted by Voltairine

Three days!

Yeah, we were right on the end of the line, and the lines were down for miles. Some of the area is quite hilly, bush covered and difficult to get into.
But its usually only a couple of hours or at worst over night

[Darwinsbulldog]

The electrical storms on Saturn are 10,000 times more powerful than those on Earth.....Nature, July 7, 2011?? I will check...

[AUSloth]

We are guaranteed to lose power a few times in the wet from storm damage or a silly yachtie who forgets to drop his mast when he retrieves his trailer sailer and drives into power lines and occasionally in the dry from brush fires and transformer overheating. It used to be a few days at a time but they have now completed a ring main in our area that allows a feed from either end so the down time is less. Fortunately I have set our house up so I can run the essentials (beer fridge, lights, fans, tv and computer) from a generator connected to my switch board and we have gas or electric options for cooking. The future projects are an alternate gas hot water (currently using a heat pump) and solar array. Even been playing with some wind powered electrical generation lately to patch in through the standard solar inverter set
The "brown outs" (line voltage drops below 220V but stays in circuit) are the pisser they just blow shit up everywhere.

[rosiemacduck]

Here in the Gold Coast hinterland, the power is up and down like the Assyrian Empire.