Power Outage Affects Some 800,000 Households in Tokyo

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Power Outage Affects Some 800,000 Households in Tokyo (Reuters) A power outage in Tokyo on Monday left a wide swathe of the city, including part of the city center, without electricity. - Nov 22 1:52 AM EST

Japan-power-outage Tokyo (Reuters) Tokyo Electric A TEPCO spokesman later confirmed that the outage had been caused by a plane hitting a transmission line. The Defence Agency said a Japanese military jet on a training mission had crashed in Saitama Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. - Nov 22 12:52 AM EST

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=outage&n=10&hn=85&b=11

Not trying to be alarmist, just curious that well over a million people (that's 800,000 households) lose power in Tokyo and it wasn't very newsworthy. Further down the page

Bell Atlantic disrupted from maintenance glitch (Reuters) NEW YORK, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Bell Atlantic Corp. said on Tuesday that tens of thousands of northern New Jersey customers have lost telephone and internet service, including 911 service, after planned software maintenance went awry.

-- PD (PaulDMaher@att.worldnet.com), November 23, 1999

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Hey Paul, Just wanted to point out that 800,000 households is not "well over a million." In fact it is well under a million.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), November 23, 1999.

I'm sure Japanese households have more than one occupant.

Do the math, eh?

I'm quite sure it'd be well over one million PEOPLE.

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), November 24, 1999.


Josie Miami go back to school. Take a course on "reading for info", or maybe basic math.

Story said 800,000 households. Unless almost every "household" has only one person in it, the total warm-bodies comes to well over a million.

-- reader (bookstore@reading.net), November 24, 1999.


- JoseMiami. Try covering one eye and reading it again. Or picture this, maybe contain more than one person.

-- Silent Running (CanYouHearMe@Calling.You), November 24, 1999.

Hey Silent Running!

You just gave your age away! HAHAHA!

Monikor is too ruddy right though. Teach your kids too.

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), November 24, 1999.



I guess because the Japanese didn't riot like a bunch of animals the black out in Tokyo wasn't consided news worthy.

-- Ocotillo (peeling@out.===), November 24, 1999.

Yes, it isn't newsworthy to the U.S.

The power was restored quickly to most of the area and most of the auxilliary power systems seemed to work. Hospitals, trains etc. switched reasonably well to backup power within a half hour. The police quickly distributed to intersections to direct traffic. Only a few people had to be extracted from elevators by fire department personnel forcing doors open.

ATM's were down and so was the TSE. The utlilty was able to redirect power in the grid until the ~275kV lines were repaired. It was an inconvenience but certainly not a calamity. People just took it in stride... 'shoganai' (It can't be helped).

Here in Japan, looting and thievery is reserved for bankers, politicians and loan companies. Street crime remains

-- PNG (png@gol.com), November 24, 1999.


as rare as a reasonably, bug-free Microsoft product.

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-- PNG (png@gol.com), November 24, 1999.


I was told by Bell Atlantic last night that phone service was interrupted by a cut cable, not software problems?????

-- Jay (Jack55@aol.com), November 24, 1999.

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1/24/99 -- 5:12 AM c Planes grounded after crash; concern over Tokyo's lifelines

1/24/99 -- 5:12 AM

TOKYO (AP) - Japan's air force is temporarily grounding its planes following the crash of a training jet on the outskirts of Tokyo that left the two-man crew dead and hundreds of thousands of people without electricity.

Virtually all of the 850 planes in Japan's air force will be grounded indefinitely for safety checks, Air Self-Defense Force spokesman Kazuji Tanaka said today.

Only emergency flights will be allowed, he said.

Monday's crash shocked Japan not only because the plane came down near a suburban school, but also because by cutting just two power lines, the jet left much of the city and surrounding areas without electricity.

The lines were severed by the two-seat, twin-engine T-33 jet, which went down in a dry riverbed near an airbase and a junior high school on the northern fringe of Tokyo, officials said.

Along with cutting electricity to 800,000 households, the outage stopped trains, darkened traffic lights and briefly halted futures trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Power was restored to the affected areas in Tokyo within about 10 minutes, but the suburbs had to wait more than three hours as electricity was reallocated from other generators.

Yoshimi Hitosugi, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co., defended the company's performance, saying power was restored faster than it would have been in most other countries.

``The company believes it took all steps possible under the circumstances,'' he said. ``We're sorry some customers had to wait about three hours for power, but still we did everything that should have been done.''

Even so, the fact that the cutting of just two power lines could cause such widespread outages has raised deep concern over the security of the capital's lifelines.

``Traffic signals, financial online services, hospital equipment, wiring inside buildings, sewage - these are the lifeblood of a city, and high-voltage cables are the arteries,'' said an editorial today in Mainichi, a major newspaper. ``These arteries were cut.''

The cause of the accident remains unknown. There were no casualties on the ground.

Military spokesman Tatsuhiko Fukui said the aging T-33 model is being gradually replaced by the more modern T-4. The T-33 that crashed was provided to Japan in 1955 by the United States.

The Lockheed T-33 is used to train fighter pilots and for other instructional purposes, he said. Japan has only eight T-33s in operation.

The last Japanese military airplane crash was on Aug. 15. Both crew members aboard were killed when the Mitsubishi F-4 fighter crashed in an unpopulated area of Miyazaki, 560 miles southwest of Tokyo.
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Velly interesting. Big reaction to 3 hours without power.

Y2K will sure surprise them.

DON'T FORGET Year 2000 WILL BE ACTUALLY ARRIVING SHORTLY.

Fasten Your Seat Belts

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 24, 1999.



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