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How do we lower carbon emissions...???

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Blackout in Miami causes traffic issues...

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Power Outage in South Florida

noreply@blogger.com (Traffic In Miami) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:06:00 +0000

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A failed switch and fire at an electrical substation outside Miami triggered widespread blackouts across Florida on Tuesday, cutting off power for nearly 1 million customers across most of the state, a utility executive said.

About 8,000 locations remained without power early Tuesday evening, Florida Power and Light President Armando Olivera told reporters.

The failure eventually knocked out power to customers north of Miami on both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, state and local authorities and utility officials said.

Olivera said a disconnect switch failed at 1:08 p.m. at the automated substation west of Miami, and a piece of equipment that controls voltage caught fire about the same time. Neither failure by itself would have caused a widespread outage, he said.

Utility workers were still trying to piece together what happened, but he said the "initiating event" was the failure of the disconnect switch.

"These systems are all designed so that you can handle two contingencies," Olivera said. "If you had a switch that failed, protective devices would have isolated the problem. That did not occur today. That's the part we don't have an answer for."

Olivera said about 475,000 Florida Power and Light customers and about the same number of customers from other utilities lost power as a result. The affected region ranged from Miami to Tampa, throughout Orlando and east to Brevard County, home to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.

The substation trouble set off a sequence of events that within two to three minutes had knocked numerous power plants off-line -- including the Turkey Point nuclear power plant south of Miami. Olivera said Turkey Point's two nuclear reactors and a natural gas-powered generation unit automatically shut down when the plant's systems detected a fluctuation in the power grid.

"In a fraction of a second, the demand was far greater than the power plants that were on line generating electricity could handle," he said. "When you have that kind of imbalance, we have a system that kicks in and it starts turning people's lights off, essentially balancing the demand with what's available."

Mike Stone, a Florida Department of Emergency Management spokesman, said 2 million to 3 million people were affected at the height of the outage.

Detective Robert Williams, a Miami-Dade County police spokesman, said power was out across the entire county within 20 minutes of the initial failure. Outages extended into neighboring Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale, and north to Palm Beach County -- a region of about 6 million people.

But Miami International Airport, which has emergency generators, reported fewer than a dozen delays and had normal electric service back on within half an hour. Schools remained in session during the blackout, said Cmdr. Charles Hurley, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade school system's police department. And Delrish Moss, a county police spokesman, said no major traffic problems had been reported.

"Most of the calls that we're getting have to do with people being stuck in elevators and things of that nature, and people concerned about what is going on." Moss told CNN. He advised people "not to panic, and if you go out, be courteous to other drivers."

"If you come to a place where there is a no light and no policemen ... be courteous," he said. "If you're not courteous, that's when accidents occur."

The outage struck as a strong cold front and scattered thunderstorms passed through the region -- including one that prompted a tornado warning for Fort Lauderdale, the National Weather Service reported.

Stan Johnson, a spokesman for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, said a total of eight generating units were off-line across the region.

Ken Clark, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said Turkey Point's nuclear reactors are likely to remain off-line for 12 to 24 hours. Both were in "hot standby," and operators kept them in that condition without resorting to emergency diesel generators, Clark said.

In Washington, a Department of Homeland Security official said there was no indication that terrorism was behind the blackout.

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Are you tired of the traffic situation in Miami...???

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Move It. Yes You Can!

noreply@blogger.com (Traffic In Miami) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:04:00 +0000

Help Tackle Traffic. Find out more here.

You Have the Power to Improve Traffic!

What's MOVN? It stands for Meeting Our Vehicular Needs, a Miami-Dade County open-forum of local businesses, state of Florida agencies, local governments, and the community at large - all working together to find countywide solutions to traffic congestion.

Our latest campaign to keep traffic MOVN -- "Don't Block the Box" -- is reminding drivers that it's against the law to block intersections. If police catch you stopping traffic you could be fined $136.50 plus three points on your license. When traffic starts to back up through an intersection, make sure you have enough room to clear the intersection before moving forward - Don't Block the Box!

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Road Rage Survey Reveals Best, Worst Cities

noreply@blogger.com (Traffic In Miami) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:34:00 +0000

Norwalk, Conn., May 15, 2007 /PRNewswire/ — The second annual In The Driver’s Seat Road Rage Survey, commissioned by AutoVantage, a leading national auto club, found that the least courteous city in the country is Miami, followed by New York and Boston. It’s the second consecutive year that Miami claimed the top spot. The other two cities with the worst road rage were Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Read more at AutoVantage. They have some interesting videos too!

Traffic In Miami -- Take One!

noreply@blogger.com (Traffic In Miami) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:14:00 +0000

Driving home today I decided that I have had enough of the "Miami Driving Mania" and decided to speak out about it.

I'm not righteous nor am I going to preach to the choir. I will write about my encounters on the roads of Miami and talk about different perspectives as I see it. I will also write frequently so do feel free to leave comments.