Up till 100,000 people, or about a quarter of the geographical area of Oslo was out of power for about an hour today. Well, lucky me, I wasn't amongst them.
The reason for it is most probably lighting related, and there have been reported fires in two transformation stations. The subway services were affected and out of service, and multiple trains were stuck in tunnels.
"It isn't often the power goes in such large areas," said information adviser Kjersti Kirkeby at power supplier Hafslund's technical services division.
What gets my attention is the lack of redundancy, if affecting two stations is enough to cut power in large parts of the city, what if you simultaniusly demage four, or six. Businesses are dependant on technology, and far from all have emergency generators and proper Uninterruptable Power Supplies.
Hah!
You expect Norway to use money on expanding our -infrastructure-? I mean, we don't even spend money on maintaining the one we already got.
I'm not the least bit surprised. But, yeah, it's worth getting worried over.