Tell HN: CNN in Atlanta is currently on diesel power from geomagnetic storm

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Announced live on air by Chad Myers.

(Unable to change title. Sorry!)

Update: Chad Myers just confirmed a few hours later that CNN's power outage was due to a tree as GP reported and not the now G5 (from G4) geomagnetic storm. Should be fun lights in the sky tonight!

Yep. There's a big outage in Atlanta at present according to Georgia Power: https://outagemap.georgiapower.com

Edit: The GP site says it's caused by a "tree" and will take 2 hours to fix. Did GP not think of geomagnetic storm as a cause option in their UI or are the reporters wrong? ;@) (Unfortunately, GP's outage map is an SPA that doesn't create shareable links.)

GP had 20,912 customers out yesterday and ~8,796 out right now according to web archive of poweroutage.us [1][2]

Any decently large power provider will always have some outages.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240509194526/https://powerouta...

[2] https://poweroutage.us/area/utility/36

Yep. It's just that a big one overlaps Georgia Tech and Tech Square around where CNN HQ is.

Could mention on some of the other active threads on NOAA posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318356

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Forgot it. Fixed. ¡Gracias for feedback!

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