Why the New Orleans power system collapsed during Hurricane Ida
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- New Orleans and surrounding areas lost power when Hurricane Ida hit on Aug. 29 and may not get all of it back for weeks. Entergy has been on thin ice for a while, with growing concerns that they are not properly maintaining their systems to withstand natural disasters. Read more: wapo.st/3zzfYXA. Subscribe to The Washington Post on UA-cam: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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I would have thought that after Hurricane Katrina, overhead power lines would have been moved underground during the mass rebuilding. Some times people never learn from mistakes.
Not possible, can't put transmission underground
I recognize underground transmission line and distribution line are safer than poles from flood, storm and hurricane but construction and maintenance cost are more expensive.
In Korea, electricity industry is publicized so undergronding of transmission line and distribution line in urban area by subsidized to KEPCO, Korean Electricty Company from government and local autonomous entity.
But United States' electricity industry is privatized so undergrounding project might raise up the high rate of electric charge to home and businesses.
High tension of that kind it is not efficent to put underground.
They need multiple crossings over the river and maintain the transmission towers. What I saw were covered in rust & corrosion.
Below sea level? How?
@@jontelmurphy5996 sure it is! Done all over the world! Underground lines can be installed in dedicated public thoroughfares with dense population, and don't require right-of-way acquisition. Since land acquisition can be a major cost for transmission projects, underground lines are often more economical.
Corporatonias in charge of public utilities have a vested interest in their PROFIT, not their customers.
Same goes for regional governments.
They fine to fill their pockets rather than making them use the mine to fix the problem.
The city is below sea level, surrounded by water and right next to the Gulf. No one should be living there.
Seafood, oil, natural gas, shipping, and military defense. If those are useless to America then your statement is true
It feels like the media is kinda bummed this wasn't worse.
Cuomo, potato joe, afghanistan. They needed a good crisis to avert attention again.
I dont think wind turbines can withstand 150mph winds and storm surges that reversed the current of the Mississippi River either!
Not yet but GE is building wind turbines that can handle 128mph sustained winds.
@@punchyourmom yes, and some turbines have no wings. Also we have to be able to I port power from other states
@@punchyourmom that was 150 so they would of been shredded! My point exactly!
Generators are helpul
@@The_Happy_Aviation_Enthusiast ✅
Guess whos going to pay more, alot more.
"Guess whos going to pay more, alot more." I would imagine insurers are going to raise rates. I would imagine the cost at the pump is going to go up. I won't be paying anything more....... How about you?
Look at this representation of our wonderful country. Ha! Cant even help your fellow American, yet we think we're ready to help the world. Cave men!
@@coolnout3765 Wait, you KNOW that insurance and fuel costs will GO UP, but you think YOU won't be affected?
LOL, how does that happen? Do you live in the woods in Alaska with just a knife to hunt with?
Entergy's service is already sky high for utilities as it is.
@@brianmi40 I put less than 20 miles on my car a month. Gas could go up to $10 a gallon and it wouldn't bother me. My home insurance isn't going up because of a hurricane living in the midwest.
For the lack of air-conditioning on hot summer days part. As a floridian who has had this happen. This is actually dangerous. Make sure to have enough to drink for a while.
A one million dollar fine is just pocket change to big corporations.
Its all thanks to the terrible infrastructure and poor management of the state and city
Given that the thumbnail for this video LITERALLY showed a four sided steel reinforced power line tower DOWNED, exactly HOW would you suggest they "fix" the infrastructure?
@@brianmi40 Biden! The most voted for president in history can save us! Look at the great works he has accomplished so far. Afghanistan alone is a show of his mighty power to change the course of mankind!
@@Rebirth602 Hey DUMBASS, I didn't COMMENT ABOUT BIDEN. So get your ROCKS OFF SOMEWHERE ELSE MORON.
FACT: Biden is 10,000 TIMES THE PRESIDENT THAT DUMBASS TRUMP WAS.
You're right about Afghanistan tho, after 20 YEARS OF AMERICANS DYING IN THAT HELL HOLE, it was FAR PAST TIME WE GET THE HELL OUT.
But HEY, you and anyone else that wants to go, is WELCOME TO GRAB YOUR GUN and GO FIGHT THE TALIBAN ALL YOU WANT.
@@brianmi40 @@brianmi40 do you live here? Do you think thats the only downed powerline? bruh im here on the ground, alot of this could be fixed with running wires underground and replacing wooden wire poles with metal. It isnt just this single big line down its thousands of smaller ones as well. Alot of this could have been done better considering we had years to do it, but sure make yourself look dumb for jumping to the defense of a city with the worst infrastructure in the country.
@@brianmi40 also your opinion on biden and the Afghanistan debacle says all i need to know about the veracity of your opinions. Not like we left thousands of americans, thousands of military vehicles and arms or anything. But sure keep supporting a man who cant stay awake while meeting foreign leaders and needs a handler so the media doesnt ask him tough questions. Democrats left their brains at home today i guess
Horrible place its gets destroyed it seems like every few years. Sad
A big line went down to the city good luck getting that back soon the lines are in the water..
Do you somehow imagine the power isn't already OFF on any line in the water, and you simply lift them out of the water and repair them to then turn on the power?
Its very common to have powercuts for 3hours to 48hours in india if it justs rain.
And we know how to make backup power (inverter) last longer than manufacturer says.
Sometimes it is just because some intermediary company failed to pay power grid board due to corrupt practices siphoning off money. Almost every body pays their bill timely and you can even pay years in advance.
Please give us access to that information
@@denasharpe2393 what do you mean by that???
Take a close look at that tangled, rusted, fragile, old scrap of a transmission tower that imploded on it's own corrosion.
.. was "that thing" .. supposed to be a hardened lifeline for power to a major hurricane prone first world city?
Did COVID blow away? Because I don't see anyone wearing masks in all these videos.
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@@chris76-01 I'm not worried. I'm not in Louisiana. 😂😂
well the kickbacks are too juicy
Small generator, AC window unit. Solar and power wall . That's the minimum you need for 2 weeks ( im in Florida)
I don't understand why they put powerlines above ground over ond over again.
You think they would have metal power poles and not wood at this point
I'm sure the metal poles would of bent too. Nothing can withstand 150mph wind gusts! Even the Mississippi River changed direction!
Metal isn't ideal in the south, especially near the coastline where the heat, humidity, and salty conditions will corrode the metal towers faster than wooden ones.
LOL The thumbnail for this video was LITERALLY a FOUR SIDED REINFORCED STEEL UTILITY TOWER DOWNED.
And you think "just upgrade to metal poles".
Metal poles attract lightning
@@denasharpe2393 Which is a good thing, rather than striking something flammable, like a house roof.
That is WHY we put STEEL LIGHTNING RODS ON BUILDINGS.
What caused? Perhaps there was a storm or something. Who knows.
I feel so Powerless.
Then run and hide! The world is a scary place.
@@Rebirth602 I've had enough!
But GOD IS NOT we must pray for the whole situation to be set right as soon as possible..meantime we must donate to those offering to go there and help..and go ourselves, if we are able..❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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@@denasharpe2393 gods not real.
The consequences in the regions affected by hurricane Katrina and now hurricane Ida suggest that all electrical distribution systems, electrical substations and electrical transformation banks should be designed and installed for submersible equipment underground. The electrical system will be better protected and the restoration of electrical service would be faster in the event of another hurricane or flood.
That state is always getting hit 😢
Ask Tennesee (flooding) and FLorida (hurricanes) and California (fires), and.....
everyone in new orleans should just leave
its a lost cause
I rather die in New Orleans than live anywhere else.
@@josebloodthurst1421
Be careful, what ya wish for
Seems mother nature hates that place.
I worry about the potential for deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning from people running generators indoors.
Why is that Transmission light Tower rusty like they never replace that after Katrina my lord.
if u add to my bill im done with yall frfr im done with lousiana
Entergy pays off politicians, no dbout.
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Where is Biden, how come he doesn't do nothing about it?
@Mr. Bongs BurgH Only if they're Bounty Brand. The Quicker Picker Upper.
Where’s your english teacher, and why hasn’t he been charged with negligence?
Are they in a pudding shortage or something?
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@@stargazer7644 where is yours? My teacher was a pretty dumb liberal more concerned with activism than teaching!
good designs ???????
in 2017 0r 18 hurricane account ...may be i fill up ...
They are looting in New Orleans cop just shot in the head lucky a graze wound
Things are so bad ...
There’s nothing to loot.
Everything’s wet.
All this state that are affected by this monster hurricane Ida was all Republican's red State so the Republican's should have their hands and help their state and their peoples I think the Republican's must have learn lots of lesson from all this punishment from hurricane Ida and Afghanistan
This is what is so bad about the news media of today hope the little punk figures out life
Power loss is not that big of a deal nowadays cause of easy access to power generators
A Hamster on a wheel powers my computer.
Ummm in a city where you can’t find gasoline? Good luck with that generator over the next 3 weeks.
@@stargazer7644 never heard of solar, huh? Tough times never last. Only tough people do.
@@Rebirth602 How well would your solar have fared with 150 MPH Cat 4 winds? If the wind didn't take the panels out, the flying debris would have. But sure. Whatever.
@@stargazer7644 yes, a smart person leaves them outside to get destroyed. You helpless idiots just love to cry. Because nobody has the ability to store them safely in a car or brick shed. Fyi, if you knew dick about them you would know they can withstand high impacts and would 100% survive a flood.
Louisiana power grid is decrepit. Most of the poles look like the original ones from when electricity was first installed 70+ years ago with patches here and there to keep it standing. 😆
do rebuild work in New Orleans for low - slave wages $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
The only people "resurfacing concerns" are the people claiming people are resurfacing concerns.
If you were here in New Orleans like me you’d understand
@@peoplelikegrapes4671 you have power and an internet connection already. Wow? Must be really terrible.
@@nunyabizness8799 Still don’t have power and my data plan is 75% full and resets on the 29th
@@peoplelikegrapes4671 lol. you poor thing you.
@@nunyabizness8799 it’s also Louisiana so it says it’s 88 degrees but feels like 100… people straight up die from this stuff
the guy delivering the facts in litte over 30 seconds says UMMM 20 times... just once from me... Ugggggghhhhh
Y’all got to know that way more damage has occurred away from that cesspool.
Shhh, gotta hide all the shady liberal dealings somehow. Storm of the century I say!!!!!!🤡
What’re they hiding this time? It’s been non stop the past 4 years. Inform people rather then making a vague non supported comment that would leave one questioning what you talking about.
time for ocean powerplants / created by waves
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Meanwhile Joe is having nap-time while his handlers write his next speech.
um
blame God for making weak trees
Just want New Orleans needs thank God it was downgraded to it too may they never have to live through Katrina again
They'd be happy to "thank god" if he JUST STOPPED THE HURRICANES that SLAUGHTER HUMAN LIFE.
Don't like the area just move.
You don’t want to humble yourself yet, ? Is much easier to blame it on peoples, companies ha? The worse is yet to come, for the entire world, remember these words, before falling is pride. The world if proud, and arrogant, before the eyes of Almighty God. lucifer was punished because of these reasons, and he has, and will never recover for eternity.
They need to bury them power lines for the next time.
Way too Costly!, Some cant be underground " Any that run on Steel Towers "
Or just fix it & move on with your life.
It's not feasible. The ground isn't stable.
Plus it's too expensive.
They're starting to bury them around here after we've lost the power at least a dozen times in the last 2 years.
You want to bury powerlines in a swamp? LOL.