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Texas airport loses power: 'Complete chaos right now'
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport lost power before dawn Wednesday, leading to canceled flights and frustrated flyers.
But by 7:30 a.m., the lights started to come back on at the Austin airport’s main terminal, after a two-and-a-half-hour power outage grounded flights during the facility’s busiest time of day.
Internet service also was restored, which means the Transportation Security Administration checkpoints can resume screening passengers.
Austin Energy said in an email that underground equipment malfunctioned around 4:30 a.m., leading to the outage. Electricians used fault indicators — devices that light up to indicate a circuit issue — to isolate the cause of the problem.
Crews completed repairs and restored power to the airport around 8 a.m. According to the Austin Energy spokesperson Matthew Mitchell, crews are continuing to evaluate the issue to identify any changes we may need to make in the future.
"Anytime there's an outage we try to figure out, is that problem repeatable? And if so, how can we put safeguards and redundancies in place to ensure that that doesn't happen again," Mitchell said. "That standard procedure when you have an outage, but especially for one for one like this, you look at it and say 'okay, how can we avoid this in the future?'"
But by 7:30 a.m., the lights started to come back on at the Austin airport’s main terminal, after a two-and-a-half-hour power outage grounded flights during the facility’s busiest time of day.
Internet service also was restored, which means the Transportation Security Administration checkpoints can resume screening passengers.
Austin Energy said in an email that underground equipment malfunctioned around 4:30 a.m., leading to the outage. Electricians used fault indicators — devices that light up to indicate a circuit issue — to isolate the cause of the problem.
Crews completed repairs and restored power to the airport around 8 a.m. According to the Austin Energy spokesperson Matthew Mitchell, crews are continuing to evaluate the issue to identify any changes we may need to make in the future.
"Anytime there's an outage we try to figure out, is that problem repeatable? And if so, how can we put safeguards and redundancies in place to ensure that that doesn't happen again," Mitchell said. "That standard procedure when you have an outage, but especially for one for one like this, you look at it and say 'okay, how can we avoid this in the future?'"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/austin-airport-loses-power-morning-125156607.html
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Fuel shortages, staffing shortages, shitty and incompetent management.
