Power back by 6pm apparently?
Nice and dark in the back of house at work!
Posted by WormsOfThunderdome
Power back by 6pm apparently?
Nice and dark in the back of house at work!
Posted by WormsOfThunderdome
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Anyone know what caused it?
Was pretty funny crossing various intersections of chaos with no traffic lights.
Was it because of the torrential rain earlier?
there was a kind of smoky haze over collins st around 4:45 too. spooky
like i commented in the other thread, there is several call outs all over the city with people trapped in lifts
My legs are still a bit jelly from the parliament escalators
Power went out in our building, early finish for us! Woop!
Just repeating what u/BushyToaster88 has said in the daily discussion thread:
>Listening to 3AW, a citipower rep came on, apparently a car park was being flooded off little collins from a burst water main. A substation is there which they had to shutdown. No ETR, they are saying worse case over night.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1tmjeow/comment/onqx7o8/](https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1tmjeow/comment/onqx7o8/)
Just had to take 60 flights of stairs to get out of work. Legs are cooked
Heading into city soon for gig at the Forum. Wish me luck.
Was fucking up the escalators at Parliament as an FYI. If you have mobility issues, best to ring up the station to figure out which lifts are working.
Confirmed water main burst either in or near a car park in the CBD. This caused the said car park to flood with water.
Works are currently focussed on getting the water out of the car park first, so that Citipower/Powercor can get their workers safely in there to eventually fix the power outage.
Outage could possibly go through the night and into early morning tomorrow at the absolute latest. It’s highly unlikely to last that long but you can never be certain with these things sadly.
I certainly hope for the better outcome though! (That it doesn’t go into the early AM)
Chunks of Elizabeth st restaurants are knocked out.
Knocked out power at RMIT. So many of my classmates lost unsaved work!
oh no! does anyone know if Mogwai concert will still go ahead at Forum tonight!?
Good luck everybody
apparently collins street near southern cross was unaffected
**Burst water main triggers mass power outage in Melbourne**
[https://amp.9news.com.au/article/1f032894-a813-49b0-8502-81b58ae9b340](https://amp.9news.com.au/article/1f032894-a813-49b0-8502-81b58ae9b340)
Been waiting in my apartment building lobby for over an hour. Lifts don’t work. Apparently floor security doors don’t work. Not walking up 16 floors to check. Can’t drive to my partner’s instead because my car keys are upstairs. I’m so fucking tired
Just got an update text from citipower, expected to be back on at 6am.
Baby boom 9 months from now.
Okay but seriously, if power is back on at 6am, what are y’all doing about your fridges & freezers?
dude i just drove an hour from my girlfriend’s back to my apartment only to find that the power’s out LMFAO. i didn’t even want to leave, i was debating just staying overnight and now im kicking myself for heading home.
How did a car park flood knock out the entire CBD and inner-city? That’s blocks and blocks!
More to the point, a car park flood!?
And aren’t emergency systems as per building codes/regulatory standards, such as fire or power outage, meant to kick in auto back-up generators and things like elevators automatically return to the ground floor, safety doors open-up and often warning sirens or evac cascades will commence.
I believe fire trucks did turn up to multiple skyscrapers.
I was at QV / Cnr Lonsdale & Swanston streets an hour ago. Crews were putting up tape and there’s a ro-ro construction equipment transport truck parked there.
Wow I had no idea a burst water main could cause this. Curious which carpark this is.
Earlier this year I walked past a water leak on the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale streets for approximately 2 months and I think submitted a Snap Send Solve 3 times…
The same old tired excuse every time: “We are waiting on 3rd party permits.”
Can this city please get serious about maintenance and management? There is currently a pandemic of psychopathic idiots in power
The bike ride through Collingwood and the MCG was highly sketchy.