Major power outages in Melbourne

[nomorecatering]

40 deg heat is causing havoc all over greater Melbourne this evening, reprtedly 1000+ sets of traffic lights all over the city. Many many suburbs are without power, CBD and all major arterial roads are a disaster and airlines predicting long delays as pax cant get to Tulla in any reasonable time. Also heard that some navaids may be offline due to bushfire activity.
News services are advising that people use the absolute minimum electricity as the power grid is struggling with the demand. Also advising that if you dont have to travel to, or within Melbourne, stay at home.

Puplic transportin chaos, trams and trains ground to a halt with the power outages.

Cause is a bushfire up at Benalla thats cut a power line from NSW that feeds the Victorian power grid in times of high demand.

[J430]

YOU'LL LOVE EVERY PIECE OF VICTORIA.................:E :E :E

Gotta feel for em......all this cr@p and they live in Melbourne too!!

Bunker down J they are about to throw rocks and anything else they can find that does not need electricity to launch:rolleyes:

Cheers

J:ok:

[scrambler]

Not the heat, bushfires causing loss of power connection with the NSW grid.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1828012.htm
Looks like a major load shedding exercises to keep supply above demand.
Further refs
http://www.citipower.com.au/
follow links outages then unplanned outages
http://www.powercor.com.au/short_life/fs_outages.html