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Author Topic: Massive power outage hits Florida  (Read 351 times)
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« on: February 26, 2008, 03:11:58 PM »

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Massive power outage hits Florida

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Massive power outages struck Florida on Tuesday afternoon, with power reported out from Miami to Jacksonville on the east coast and as far north as Tampa on the Gulf Coast, police and utility officials said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/26/florida.power/index.html
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2008, 04:19:12 PM »

any idea where the power is out in jax?
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2008, 04:29:15 PM »

this is interesting. the article you linked to says that the cause of the outage was unknown, but the times union says that there was an automatic shutdown of a nuclear power reactor in miami.

http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/022608/D8V27LIO0.shtml
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2008, 05:23:13 PM »

images from South Florida, where the metromover and metrorail trains have come to a halt.









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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2008, 06:00:05 PM »

Man, that Miami Metro Mover is UGLY!

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