Overall outage vloert North-Holland

Posted on 27-03-2015 at 10:19 by sir_smokalot – 57 Comments”

A week after the solar eclipse comes anyway: the power of death, not only your Senseo coffee maker is not working and your Tesla no longer loads, but also the traffic lights service refuse.

About the reasons, it is still in the dark surface, although there are (unconfirmed) rumours about an explosion in a high-voltage substation at Diemen. The fact is that trams but also trains not drive anymore, so if you have somewhere: to take the bike or the car.

But beware at intersections; as soon as the electronic regelarij fails and people have to rely on the base-verkeersprincipes it’s usually not without a hitch. Ergo: pick up the claim forms in, it is a cosy chaos in Damsko e.o.

Oh, and refuel, you can also forget.

Photo: also in Hilversum, the lights on black, credit: @PetterMalou, Twitter.

Update – response administrator Liander: “Our impression is that a large part of the network of North-Holland and Flevoland. The cause is with Tennet, the manager of the transmission grid, which manage all of the power lines above the ground, from 110.000 volts.”

Update 2 – here we go already, in terms of chaotic chaos: