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Latin America

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts) Sun Sep 10, 2017, 10:15 PM Sep 2017

Massive Power Outage Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Tamaulipas y Chihuahua Mexico

De acuerdo con el periódico Reforma, el incidente ocurrió por una falla en torres de alta tensión de 115 mil y 400 mil voltios en una estación de Piedras Negras, Coahuila, lo que afectó zonas del noroeste del país..

https://www.publimetro.com.mx/mx/noticias/2017/09/10/reportan-apagon-masivo-nuevo-leon-coahuila-tamaulipas.html

Situation is ongoing, very little additional information available.

Confirmed personally to me by relatives in Saltillo, Monterrey, and Reynosa Mexico.

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Massive Power Outage Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Tamaulipas y Chihuahua Mexico (Original Post) Xipe Totec Sep 2017 OP

storm damage? Kali Sep 2017 #1

This is in Northern Mexico, all states neighboring the US. nt Xipe Totec Sep 2017 #2

I know there is a big electric line planned to go to Sonora soon, are there others? Kali Sep 2017 #3

Kali

(55,019 posts)

1. storm damage?

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Sun Sep 10, 2017, 10:26 PM

Sep 2017

wasn't a storm supposed to be hitting the east coast of Mexico too?

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

2. This is in Northern Mexico, all states neighboring the US. nt

Reply to Kali (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 10, 2017, 10:30 PM

Sep 2017

Kali

(55,019 posts)

3. I know there is a big electric line planned to go to Sonora soon, are there others?

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 10, 2017, 10:46 PM

Sep 2017

I have no idea. I have spent a fair amount of time in Chihuahua but I never thought about the source of electricity (and I remember when it was still new in some places and nonexistent in the Mountains.

Sort of like the lines through the ranch - electric, cable, gas/oil. I just know where they are on me, no real idea where they go or come from.

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