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3 unusual facts about Power outage


Forbidden Siren 2

During the subsequent blackout, the entire population of the island disappeared without trace or explanation.

Gage and Tollner

It had 36 gaslamps, meaning it could stay open in a blackout, cherry framed mirrors and tables made of mahogany.

Volt-ampere reactive

If the reactive power is too low, inductive loads such as transformers will be unable to maintain voltages necessary for the generation of electromagnetic fields, leading to a "Voltage collapses" that create blackouts .


Babyji

In Babyji, Dawesar paints a Delhi of crime, rape, dirt, blackouts, backwardness, residual colonialism, domestic violence, and arranged marriages, a city where promising young people often see their only option as going to the United States, thus contributing to the brain drain and setting in motion a vicious circle.


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2002 NRL Grand Final

A pre-match performance by Billy Idol was attempted but due to a power outage had to be aborted.

2003 Italy blackout

Only part of the Geneva Canton of Switzerland suffered a power outage for three hours.

Click of death

If the drive had its power removed inadvertently by being unplugged or power outage, the read/write heads were pulled off the disk by a power-loss circuit.

Death of a Ghost

Albert Campion, a friend of Belle and the family, persuades her to attend the show, just in time to be there when Tommy is stabbed to death during a power outage.

Marshall Kirk McKusick

More recently, he implemented soft updates, an alternative approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage, in FFS, and a revised version of UFS known as "UFS2".

Wheels of Steel

"747 (Strangers in the Night)" is about a power cut that forced planes in New York to remain in ascent in 1965 with the power outage provoking a Scandinavian flight to detour to Kennedy airport in the dark.