Black out in Ames

[RayShimley]

No power at ISU and apparently most of Ames...This day just got interesting ...

 

[IcSyU]

Rumor on campus is the ISU power plant went kaput.

 

[Cycsk]

Rumor on campus is the ISU power plant went kaput.

We have had power all day south of 30 and west of University.

 

[Boxerdaddy]

Be happy it wasn't yesterday....

 

[cyclonefan1983]

Would the ISU power plant affect the whole city of ames, if that's the case.

 

[vmbplayer]

Would the ISU power plant affect the whole city of ames, if that's the case.

Good question, where are the engineers?

My understanding is the US power grid is all connected so if one plant goes out the next will up levels to make up for it. So the University plant going out may 'trip' the Ames plant?

 

[CysRage]

No power at ISU and apparently most of Ames...This day just got interesting ...

Damn taven hoks...

 

[cymate]

The day ames went dark. This is great haha

 

[KnappShack]

relentlessly compulsively at your service

 

[Cyclonepride]

Zombies

 

[Cychotiic]

Just got out of work, no power at isu

 

[isufbcurt]

No power in the ISU business park by the airport

 

[isu_oak]

Just got out of work, no power at isu

Nice boss. I'll be sending my guys home at 4 if the power doesn't come back on. Hard to do research with no power.

 

[RayShimley]

No power at my office at ISU or in West Ames.

 

[pyrocyz]

Theoretically losing one power plant shouldn't take down all of ames, but ISU/Ames do some power trading with each other, so if ISU was carrying some of the load for Ames today then losing that source could've stressed the system enough to cause failures.

 

[isu_oak]

Just heard there is power east of ash.

 

[RayShimley]

The power actually flickered off and then right back on again at ISU a couple minutes before the blackout, so that might lend some support to that theory.

 

[ISUCubswin]

Power coming back in north Ames

 

[Doc]

Is it still hot as balls back in Iowa? If they had an unplanned event or two happen during high usage, you could easily get an outage.

 

[shadow]

I remember talking to a city official about the 2010 flood. He said things got pretty hairy for them because there is only one line into Ames for power and one of the main poles supporting the line lost a lot of sand and dirt from the base of the pole. So if true, it wouldn't be hard for all of Ames to lose power like this.