Yesterday I felt close to my family and friends in electricity-shorted Cape Town when we experienced a massive power outage that left nearly 6 million people in South-Florida without power.
According to the Florida Department of Emergency Management power was out across the entire Miami-Dade County in less than 20 minutes after the initial failure. The outages then extended into neighboring Broward County and Palm Beach County.
A failed switch and a fire at a sub-station outside of Miami is believed to have caused the problem. The substation problem caused a sequence of events that within a few minutes knocked out numerous other power plants, including the Turkey Point nuclear power plant South of Miami.
Traffic was something to miss, since every traffic light on the 14 mile-stretch from my office to home was down, and for Miamians no red means no stop.
An additional tornado warning for neighboring Fort Lauderdale made yesterday a pretty interesting day.
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