Monday, August 30, 2021

Powerless!

 The lights went out in New Orleans after Hurricane Ida knocked out the Entergy transmission lines that cross the Mississippi River.  Orleans Parish and most of Jefferson Parish lack electricity.  Posted below is a drone video of the fallen tower that crippled the Crescent City.  Entergy


40 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mayor of NOLA just said 3-5 weeks without power. This is going to be bad, really bad.

Anonymous said...

Entwerft should have prepared a little better with their Transmission towers. Engineering looks like it failed there. I noticed the dock cranes are intact so it says a lot about how they were engineered to sustain high winds. Normally cranes are boomed down or drawn in, but with certain dock cranes such as seen here behind the transmission tower, they were designed to take a wind load. Entergy should have taken a cue from them. They charge enough!

The Chief Looter said...

The resident looters are smiling. Lots of free stuff.

Anonymous said...

Yikes looks the lines are on the barge

Anonymous said...

Good to know we just showed the world you can fly a drone over a nuclear power station with no issue.

Anonymous said...

12:11, hell of a lot of difference between a dock crane and a transmission tower this tall carrying the weight of those lines (several hundred feet) crossing the river.

Nice comparison, but a better one would be the later video comparing the wooden power poles that are leaning but not down to the newer metal poles at the interstections with the traffic lights. At least they are similar in their wind resistance coefficient - unlike the dock cranes to this tower.

But hey - always take a shot at Entergy whenever one gets a chance. Almost as good as taking pot shots at politicians.

Anonymous said...

12:11 - another unqualified blowhard who's just mad about his rates. Where did you sleep last night, Holiday Inn Express? Is that where you obtained your extensive engineering and electrical knowledge? With your logic, every tower should be down by now but they're not. How's that fit into your narrative?

Anonymous said...

Lot of rust on that tower. I'm guessing that didn't help.

Anonymous said...

No Xbox....Murder rate will spike for sure.

Anonymous said...

There goes Friday lunches at Galatoire's.

Anonymous said...

The lady on the Weather Channel said experts from New York were flying in to survey the damage. Okay

Anonymous said...

@12:11pm - Don’t worry, they’ll build them back to the same shit spec, and then you’ll see an extra “storm recovery” charge on your bill to pay for it. When it falls again during the next hurricane, they’ll just repeat the process and you’ll see another charge. Murica.

Anonymous said...

I feel sorry for our friends in New Orleans. This is going to be a very rough time for them. For a city that depends on tourists and conventions, this is not good for anyone.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe that is the main tower that fell, but it appears to be one of the eight that failed. The one that crosses the river that fell into the river is similar in size to the big tower still standing across the river at the end of the video. Note all the rust on the one on the ground in the drone footage.

Kingfish said...

Just watched a WWL interview with Councilwoman Moreno. They were saying there is an even taller tower in the middle of the river that didn't make it either. She said it wasn't eight towers but eight lines for that one tower.

Anonymous said...

Someone should set up cellphone charging kiosks and could make a fortune.

Anonymous said...

Difficult to believe that only 8 conductors could carry enough electricity to cripple the whole City with their absence. There has to be more to this story........

Anonymous said...

@12:47, 12:11 here. You know about stuff like this or are you playing with your video games? Most of those towers were built over 50 years ago. The cranes are newer. Any equipment used near salty conditions will rust. Looks like they weren’t doing their jobs. And yes, I do get peeved at rates. Doesn’t everyone? And no I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn. I have a diesel powered generator at home and 500 gallons of diesel. But thanks anyway for
Suggesting I should

Anonymous said...

12:51, I might need to add that back when those towers were built A36 mild steel was the norm to be used. Now we use A990 which is 50ksi…amd the dock cranes use it also and it’s much more durable to meet the needs of today….that’s some good armchair shyt AINT it? But, we can even go higher and use Cor-ten at 110,000 psi weathering and with all of the industry and rate payers affected Entergy wouldn’t even feel that pinch. Expensive yes. Durable…HELL YES. Scuuuse me while I sip on my bourbon….I hear some wind. Time to crank up the generator!

Anonymous said...

There has got to be an active volcano under New Orleans. What else is left? They already have every other built-in potential for disaster.

Anonymous said...

Power in New Orleans will be back on in the business district most likely 24-48 hr. New Orleans is a major port city. No, I'm no expert, just one fat man's opinion.

Anonymous said...

Do you think the rogan/Chappelle show is cancelled? I got front row tickets way back when you had a post about them coming to NO.

Anonymous said...

@12:40 - ummm, Grand Gulf is about 200 miles north of this, maroon.

Anonymous said...

River is totally obstructed at this point. No traffic north or south for awhile. Would really like to see how they will part the lines to clear the river. Won't be just cut and duck.

Anonymous said...

I keep reading back-up power to the few active NOLA sewage pumps is almost exhausted.

"Smells like boo boo" ... may be the norm within a few hours.



Anonymous said...

@4:25pm - Look up Waterford Nuclear genius.

Anonymous said...

@4:25 PM - Waterford Unit 3 (nuclear plant) is 25 miles west of New Orleans. Check your facts before typing your dumbass shit. There's also one in St Francisville.

Anonymous said...

Geez, who could have possibly guessed that a place as high and inland as New Orleans with elevated power facilities could ever be affected by a Cat. 4 hurricane and have power distribution problems? Nothing like this has ever happened before...

Anonymous said...

Works for me, let’s see if restaurants and bars enforce their Covid passports while they are hurting for customers, get it son!

Anonymous said...

"The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans said it had lost power and was relying on its own generators to try to keep pumps working to drain storm water out of the city and bring in drinking water.

"But it said 80 of its 84 sewage pumping stations, part of a separate system, were also without power."
. . .

"In 2008, when Hurricane Gustav hit Louisiana, 13 of 14 transmission lines feeding New Orleans were knocked out of service. Since then, the number of lines has been reduced almost in half, and none were able to stay in operation."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/30/orleans-electricity-fail-ida/

Anonymous said...

8 conductors would mean (2) 3 phase circuits and a static wire on top of each. Not my area of electrical really, but guessing they are 138kV circuits? Maybe somebody will correct me

Anonymous said...

3:51, New Orleans may be a port city, but they have a 3rd world power grid. This is going to be worse than all the people stranded after Katrina. The Governor needs to order a mandatory evacuation and help these poor people survive, because without electricity, they won't.

Anonymous said...

3:46 gotta be one of those Steel Service boys

Anonymous said...

@12:19PM
Nothing comes for free.

Lost My Voter ID In The Storm said...

Open up every hotel north of the Mississippi, Texas and Alabama lines. And book the rooms solid for 2.5 years. These people like free gubment shit on your dime. You can bet your sweet ass Sleepy-Joe is on it. He's not about to waste this mid-term opportunity. Has he done the obligatory fly-over yet, or will that fall to Kamala?

Anonymous said...

I have a lot of respect for all of the people working to restore these systems.

They definitely have a mess on their hands.

Thanks for the drone footage. Now I can show my wife why we're NOT moving to the redneck riviera.

Kingfish said...

Here is a great post on social media right here in Jackson.

Does Entergy understand contingency planning?

First the ice storm and almost total loss of electrical grid, now the (to me) rickety tower holding 8/9 transmission lines toppled into the River knocking out the entire city???? One Entergy official said the tower came through Katrina without a wobble!! THAT WAS 16 years-ago! Prayers that public service commissioners and/or the feds hold Entergy to a higher standard because…, You can not live down here without A/C and 3.5 southern states (part of Texas Arkansas Louisiana and Mississippi) rely on Entergy for reliable electricity. And isn’t this why Bell telephone company was dismantled. Crazy world. I wish John Prine and/or Nanci Griffith were around this would make a great folk song.

Anonymous said...

For Entergy to imply that this was an unforeseeable event is total BS.

Unknown said...

Lines that close to the coast serving that many people should be underground. Yes, it cost more, but if one wants to live in paradise, they must be willing to pay the additional cost.

Anonymous said...

From KF's "social media" source: "You can not live down here without A/C."

So nobody lived down here until AC was invented and installed in every inhabited building? Are you a moron? Is that a rhetorical question?


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