[–]i_am_a_top_bloke 2 points 20 hours ago  The arts center too, hundreds of us standing on the street. permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]hedaik1 3 points 19 hours ago  Citipowers 66kv line was on single contingency and tripped. permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]HipsterHunter 2 points 17 hours ago  Were they doing field work or something? Seems odd for it to be in that state otherwise. permalinksaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]panachetagNorth Side 2 points 16 hours ago*  The network was built back in the SEC days in the cheapest possible way, which generally meant radial substations, rather than in loops like you might plan it off it was a greenfields site. Contingency gets introduced alongside projects where possible, but there are still parts of the city where faults can take large sections off and works need to occur to fix it. In this case you're right, but supply wasn't deliberately taken off. CitiPower were testing one of the cables and a third party accident damaged the contingency. permalinksaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]XenonKitten 1 point 20 hours ago  Coventry St here, power out also. Going by what I see outside, looks pretty widespread. Guessing something important blew up; never had a power outage here before (no poles for cars to hit, for one thing!) permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]XenonKitten 1 point 20 hours ago  Just got an automated text message from a random number I presume is my power supplier, saying estimated time of restore is 1pm. Looks like this was a big one. Long lunch for all! And a nervous wait for food in freezers ;) permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]pup_181 1 point 20 hours ago  Southbank is out as well permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]XenonKitten 1 point 20 hours ago  Power just came back up in Coventry St. Lots of sirens in the distance still though, wonder what happened. permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]wh0vian 1 point 19 hours ago  One of those sirens could've been my apartment building on Park Street. The fire alarm went off and the evacuation sirens were blaring for a while before the fire brigade finally arrived. It just got deemed a false alarm, perhaps triggered by the power outage. permalinksaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]zee-braRichmond! 1 point 20 hours ago  Excuse me while I save all the things. permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]reddoorcubscout[S] 1 point 20 hours ago  Power is back where I am - domain interchange permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]Pyrominon 2 points 19 hours ago  Already half way home! Guess it's too late too come back to work... permalinksaveparentreportgive goldreply [–]tjsrCrazyburn 0 points 16 hours ago  lol, so some douchebag decided Dial before you Dig didn't apply. They went straight through an underground line. permalinksavereportgive goldreply [–]hedaik1 1 point 11 hours ago  Is that actually the case? I though the 66kv line was overhead in that area... permalinksaveparentreportgive goldreply

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Nope, another idiot introducing their truck to a bridge: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbourne-traffic/stuck-truck-causes-city-road-chaos-20150505-ggucol.html