Oahu Power Outage

December 27th, 2008 kNuke Posted in Hawaii | No Comments »

Most of Oahu was without power last night, starting around 6:30 pm.  Supposedly lighting is the most likely cause of the massive outage, but the cause is still under investigation by HECO.  One thing I did learn is that darkness is very boring.  Another thing I noticed was that even though there was no power, there were a lot of lights on!

As I drove home in the darkness, I wondered why we need so many freeway lights?  The drive home wasn’t all that bad without street lights, I’m sure the state/city could reduce costs big time by turning off at minimum, every other light?

Also, the Honolulu Advertiser was unable to print editions of their daily newspaper so they released an electronic version to download.  Do they offer just an electronic version of their paper?  If not, I think it’s about 3 years past time to start offering that service.

Oh yeah, I need to go and pickup a survival kit; you should too!