Ann Arbor power outages and brownout, July 31 2007

Peter Honeyman reported a downtown (48104) power blip on Twitter, enough to trip power strip circuit breakers.

The DTE power outage map shows 101-1000 people without power in 48103, and 1001-2000 without power in 48105 as of 1:16am. (My embedded microcorrespondent in 48105 relocated to 48197, which reports 0-100 out.)

We kept up power at home, but my little energy meter reported voltages as low as 117 volts - that's within spec (120 +/- 5%) but I don't know if it's "normal". Lights flickered a few times and my home router rebooted (yes it should be on a UPS).

Getting ready to start an "ann arbor power outage" category here.

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Comments

[Edward]

Mallett's Creek library is closed with a power outage this morning.

http://www.aadl.org/node/4826

[Edward]

Ann Arbor news reports a tree trimming incident August 1, 2007 (separate from any July 31 issues:)

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/08/tree_trimmer_knocks_out_power.html

[Matt]

Here's an older video press release from the electric company that kind of explains what's going on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqTzpZUEcY