These pictures give an idea of why blogging will be intermittent for an undetermined amount of time.
At 11.05 AM yesterday we lost power [hydro]. Thinking it no big deal but checking all internal possibilities I was just about to relax and go out. Next thing a neighbour was knocking on the living room window, Fran opened it up, "THE HYDRO PLANT IS ON FIRE" was the resulting message.
She was correct it was indeed on fire.
We spent a dark night without any backup heat or light, it was kind of therapeutic in a way.
This morning was a different story with no hard news as to how long before any power is back up.
For what its worth, power may be restored to part of the town any time soon, only one unit is workable, so they may rotate power to different parts of the town for couple hours at a time.
There is another unit that was not destroyed but it has major wire damage caused by the heat. No telling how long it will be up.
I have it on fairly good authority that if the volunteer fire brigade did not respond in the manner they did we the whole building would have been toast.
Photo credit and loan of a generator thanks to Paul Fenton.
2 comments:
I worked in that plant during the Fall of 2003. All three generating units are Detroit Diesels and a lot of mechanics swear that Detroits are inferior to Caterpillars for this purpose. From what I gather the reason the Nain plant has Detroits is they were cheaper than the Cats. Cost saving measure no doubt. With the kind of power load in Nain two of the three units were almost always running. If it happens that one unit may have been down for repair I would imagine the other two would be running balls out steady!
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Almost everything about Hydro and the coastal towns has "cheap" about it.
I had two years of data that was passed on before anything was done to replace the old plant, then there was lots about the new plant that was due to "costing" that the town was not that pleased with, but what does one do.
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