Power cut hits 26,000 York homes (From York Press)
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Power cut hits 26,000 York homes
7:37pm Wednesday 13th February 2013 in News
Updated 9.50pm
A POWER cut has affected electricity supplies to 26,000 homes across York tonight.
The blackout, which happened just before 7.25pm, affected homes and businesses in the YO1, YO23 and YO24 postcodes, including Acomb, Holgate, Dringhouses, Woodthorpe and Bishophill, as well as the city-centre.
A spokesman for Northern Powergrid said power supplies were restored to all the affected properties by just before 7.50pm. The fault occurred on the National Grid network, although the exact cause is not yet known.
Earlier reports suggested the number of homes affected was about 860, although this was based on fluctuating numbers for different postcode areas on Northern Powergrid's website as the fault was dealt with.
The company has now confirmed the power cut impacted on 26,000 homes.
Comments(49)
NoNewsIsGoodNews
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8:56pm Wed 13 Feb 13
carolinemac
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9:09pm Wed 13 Feb 13
neutral observer 2
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9:41pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Power was off in places at 8am this morning and rolling aroind York all day.
I always use this site for balanced up to date great journalism
Woody G Mellor
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9:49pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Paul Meoff
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9:54pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Minsterred
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9:55pm Wed 13 Feb 13
yorkborn66
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9:58pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Woody G Mellor wrote:Ditto .
No problems for me in YO23!
Barry p
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9:59pm Wed 13 Feb 13
foreveryork
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10:04pm Wed 13 Feb 13
paulinesnowden
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10:18pm Wed 13 Feb 13
it makes a change cos lately its york city footballers that have been suffering
this complaint!!
pull your football socks up
dsom73
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10:20pm Wed 13 Feb 13
foreveryork wrote:Your 88 year old Mum's sockets must use a different type of electricity to the lights.
My 88 year old Mum's lights are back on in YO26 but none of the sockets are working. Hasn't 'tripped' so there must still be a problem.
You could either wait for this special "socket only" electricity to come back on or call a qualified electrician to come and make sure everything is working properly - my bet is that it isn't.
Something tells me you shouldn't be messing with it at all.
foreveryork
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10:30pm Wed 13 Feb 13
yorkborn66
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10:36pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Hollywood Star
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10:36pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Hollywood Star
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10:36pm Wed 13 Feb 13
yorkborn66
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10:36pm Wed 13 Feb 13
dsom73 wrote:Modern fuse boxes have an earth trip, try unplugging all the appliances that use the sockets then switch off the main switch and turn back on, If it works switch on each appliance until the sockets stop working, then you find the problem appliance. If she has an old fuse box check the circuit breaker, (for the sockets) if the thin wire has blown replace the wire. This can happen when the socket circuit is overloaded, or a spike occurs. Hope this helps.
foreveryork wrote:Your 88 year old Mum's sockets must use a different type of electricity to the lights.
My 88 year old Mum's lights are back on in YO26 but none of the sockets are working. Hasn't 'tripped' so there must still be a problem.
You could either wait for this special "socket only" electricity to come back on or call a qualified electrician to come and make sure everything is working properly - my bet is that it isn't.
Something tells me you shouldn't be messing with it at all.
yorkborn66
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10:39pm Wed 13 Feb 13
foreveryork wrote:Modern fuse boxes have an earth trip, try unplugging all the appliances that use the sockets then switch off the main switch and turn back on, If it works switch on each appliance until the sockets stop working, then you find the problem appliance. If she has an old fuse box check the circuit breaker, (for the sockets) if the thin wire has blown replace the wire. This can happen when the socket circuit is overloaded, or a spike occurs. Hope this helps.
My 88 year old Mum's lights are back on in YO26 but none of the sockets are working. Hasn't 'tripped' so there must still be a problem.
Press site playing up , sorry for triple comment.
foreveryork
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10:42pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Thanks very much for your advice, will try that for her.
Cheers
foreveryork
Woody G Mellor
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10:52pm Wed 13 Feb 13
TerryYork
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10:52pm Wed 13 Feb 13
yorkborn66
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10:59pm Wed 13 Feb 13
foreveryork wrote:No problem. But please make sure you turn off the master switch before you touch any fuse wires (not teaching you to suck eggs)
Hi yorkborn66,
Thanks very much for your advice, will try that for her.
Cheers
foreveryork
Hope she can get the kettle and TV on soon!
yorkborn66
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11:01pm Wed 13 Feb 13
TerryYork wrote:He would not be so clever
Why aren't there numerous Tory Boys on here blaming James Alexander for this?
el-mundo
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12:01am Thu 14 Feb 13
pedalling paul
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12:05am Thu 14 Feb 13
ColdAsChristmas
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12:06am Thu 14 Feb 13
foreveryork
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12:14am Thu 14 Feb 13
yorkborn66 wrote:Lol! It's one of the modern fuse boxes so no wires to touch ;-)
foreveryork wrote:No problem. But please make sure you turn off the master switch before you touch any fuse wires (not teaching you to suck eggs)
Hi yorkborn66,
Thanks very much for your advice, will try that for her.
Cheers
foreveryork
Hope she can get the kettle and TV on soon!
Decided to try the bigger appliances first & luckily it was the 1st one we tried, how lucky! Pesky tumble dryer, more trouble than they're worth!
Kettle & TV working perfectly again, Thanks very much - you're a star!
Magicman!
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12:51am Thu 14 Feb 13
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This power cut also affected the railways, because the signalling centre that controlls signals in Leeds was in the affected area of York - so all the lines out of leeds went dead.
Always a wise idea to keep some battery lights somewhere within reach, even if all you have are bike lights.
Ronald Crumble
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1:54am Thu 14 Feb 13
pedalling paul wrote:i tell you what paul it was flowing faster than me after a curry
Stand by for the inevitable comment that traffic "flowed" better with the traffic lights out.
pedalling paul
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7:28am Thu 14 Feb 13
MrsHoney
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8:30am Thu 14 Feb 13
Mulgrave
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8:43am Thu 14 Feb 13
pedalling paul wrote:Can we send pedallingpaul to Coventry? their take on road safety 'improvement' is the Naked Streets concept where all signs, signals, kerbs etc are removed. The idea is from Europe and is actually quite closely tied in with the 20mph concept, in that everyone 'co-operates' in the road space. If you think about it logically, if vehicles are actually driving slowly, why do you need to continually stop them in their tracks, other than for the less able bodied to cross the road? The other side of the coin, If you have good 'green man' crossings why would you need to reduce the speed on main roads to 20mph?
Glad that I wasn' a pedestrian trying to safely cross a road of "flowing"traffi
c during the outage.
Jiffy
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9:06am Thu 14 Feb 13
MrsHoney wrote:Yep YO26 here as well - as I believe is the station or certainly Leeman Road. Obviously not important enough :-)
I live in the YO26 area which they haven't mentioned and we had the same powercut. I was actually in Tescos at the time, a moment of excitement..........
Big Bad Wolf
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9:37am Thu 14 Feb 13
Ignatius Lumpopo
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10:30am Thu 14 Feb 13
Ignatius Lumpopo
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10:45am Thu 14 Feb 13
Can I suggest problems caused by 'Snow'? 'Ice'? 'Meltwater'? 'Gusty winds'? 'Heavy consumer usage on a bitter night'? Permutations of all five, perhaps?
Of course, I don't work in the power supply industry, so I might be completely wrong...
The Analyst
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1:06pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Jiffy wrote:...did your shopping cost considerably less on this occasion?!?
MrsHoney wrote:Yep YO26 here as well - as I believe is the station or certainly Leeman Road. Obviously not important enough :-)
I live in the YO26 area which they haven't mentioned and we had the same powercut. I was actually in Tescos at the time, a moment of excitement..........
bob the builder
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2:33pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Ronald Crumble
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3:32pm Thu 14 Feb 13
yorkiemum
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4:46pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Ignatius Lumpopo wrote:They had 'no idea' because it was to do with the National Grid.
And why had Northern Powergrid "no idea" why it happened?
Can I suggest problems caused by 'Snow'? 'Ice'? 'Meltwater'? 'Gusty winds'? 'Heavy consumer usage on a bitter night'? Permutations of all five, perhaps?
Of course, I don't work in the power supply industry, so I might be completely wrong...
highvoltage
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4:59pm Thu 14 Feb 13
ouseswimmer
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5:28pm Thu 14 Feb 13
NoMorePlease
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6:36pm Thu 14 Feb 13
ouseswimmer wrote:Because it is unusual, therefore people are more aware and safety conscious.
Why is it that traffic flows so much better and no pedestrians get run over when the power goes off? I mean we pay £10,000 per year maintenance for each set of lights and they actually make things worse! We could save billions without them!
Make it the norm and they will soon change.
yorkborn66
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8:35pm Thu 14 Feb 13
foreveryork wrote:Excellent, pleased everything is back to normal. Thank you for the nice comments, happy to help.
yorkborn66 wrote:Lol! It's one of the modern fuse boxes so no wires to touch ;-)
foreveryork wrote:No problem. But please make sure you turn off the master switch before you touch any fuse wires (not teaching you to suck eggs)
Hi yorkborn66,
Thanks very much for your advice, will try that for her.
Cheers
foreveryork
Hope she can get the kettle and TV on soon!
Decided to try the bigger appliances first & luckily it was the 1st one we tried, how lucky! Pesky tumble dryer, more trouble than they're worth!
Kettle & TV working perfectly again, Thanks very much - you're a star!
Scarlet Pimpernel
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10:52pm Thu 14 Feb 13
TerryYork wrote:Because unlike Calamity James, they don't think it's something he has control over !
Why aren't there numerous Tory Boys on here blaming James Alexander for this?
Scarlet Pimpernel
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10:54pm Thu 14 Feb 13
pedalling paul wrote:It did !
Stand by for the inevitable comment that traffic "flowed" better with the traffic lights out.
Magicman!
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12:29am Fri 15 Feb 13
ouseswimmer wrote:I think the reason is that because there is no "overlord" to tell people when to go and stop, it puts the responsibility back into peoples' own control and then they either take more care or are more courteous for allowing other people out. If traffic is controlled by lights, most people are of the mindset of "that light will be changing in a few seconds, I want to get through it before it does"(*) and so traffic on side streets often backs up.
Why is it that traffic flows so much better and no pedestrians get run over when the power goes off? I mean we pay £10,000 per year maintenance for each set of lights and they actually make things worse! We could save billions without them!
Personally I think some junctions could be changed to roundabouts and work fine. New Lane and malton Road for example - get rid of lane 2 outbound on Malton Road and use it for part of inbound whilst the bus lane is physically seperated by a continuous island, and with just one lane outbound then every time a car turns left into New Lane that would give chance for traffic on new lane to exit - and because there's normally less traffic on New lane than the inbound direction on Malton Road, this self-regulating approach would reduce queuing traffic on New Lane without adding to other queues (surely it'd be better than the current setup where only 4 cars get through New Lane even when there's a queue of 20, and then a red light for about 3 minutes, just over)
* > or in the case of some woman driving a First bendy bus on the 2 today at Clifton Green "that light has gone to red but I'm going to ignore it and that bloke on the bike who's starting to move as he's got a green light can see the side of my bus and wait" - it's enough bikes have to squeeze between two rows of wingmirrors now without the reduced green light time on Shipton Road prompting more people to jump the red light.
neutral observer 2
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11:10am Fri 15 Feb 13
Scarlet Pimpernel wrote:More intent on making up scare stories about grit storage. When everything went swimmingly well.
TerryYork wrote:Because unlike Calamity James, they don't think it's something he has control over !
Why aren't there numerous Tory Boys on here blaming James Alexander for this?
strangebuttrue?
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12:20am Sat 16 Feb 13
pedalling paul wrote:Well done Paul – get in there first and see if you can put people off saying it. Not only did it flow better but thanks to the The Press we have video evidence of it doing so.
Stand by for the inevitable comment that traffic "flowed" better with the traffic lights out.
pedalling paul says...
8:51pm Wed 13 Feb 13