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The foam ain’t workin’: http://www.king5.com/live-stream/pop-up-…
Ouch! That’s not good…..The brain trust commenters at the King 5 website are already blaming it on the mineral oil in the transformers. They think they should still be filled with PCB’s. Damn those enviromentalists!!!!
FIRE!
Ah, that would explain the power-blips just before noon.
Some people say that a substation’s to blame… but I know (doo doo doo da doo) it’s the mineral oil’s fault.
@1 fire trucks don’t carry enough for an entire transformer substation – when they finally got it, it went to white smoke and then dissipated.
@5 doesn’t help, that’s for sure.
Re: 1, holy shit, the transformer cooling fins appear to be glowing a dull cherry red.
Working in Overlake area, VOIP and lights flickered a bit, but appears to be working. That live video stream is nuts, all that foam looks like a snow storm came though the area.
Wow, that Redmond substation looks a lot like Burning Man.
I work half a block down from where this happened, though all I really know is that there was a lot of smoke and fire and that you can’t get a whole lot done in a warehouse that doesn’t have power.
yep. huge plume of black smoke, i could see from the top of the coug. my mother was getting a cat scan at the time, and the machine had a power surge overload it and they had to start all over again. damn.
@11 – Next time you tell that story, it should end with someone getting superpowers.
LOL @12
thanks for that, maccrocodile 🙂
Fire in the disco!
For fuck’s sake, people. @5 FTW
Do you guys see the skull in the fire toward the bottom?