I knew the Saints were bitter but damn.

[AsylumGuido]

(02-10-2013 10:49 AM)papachaz Wrote:  I would guess that no one is "jumping on" me because I wasn't talking out of my ass. The main feed into something the size of the superdome, in my estimation, be most likely be considered by most people with any bit of common sense, to be a 'major infrastructure' concerning the dome.

Beside the fact that I was going off what I read in that article and not just talking out of my ass.

Through in the fact (as much as I know you hate those guido, sometimes they're like taxes, you just can't ignore them) that it was a 'local genius' that incorrectly programmed the part makes it better. especially when the whole purpose of that part is to prevent exactly what it caused. absolutely priceless to all rivals and absoultely embarrassing to the city those who responsible for making sure that part of the 'infrastructure' didn't fail.

An optional piece of equipment added in a remote building is in no way "major infrastructure". The two relays were added recently prior to the Sugar Bowl and are not required at all. They were supposed to be an additional level of security.

As for the "local" genius, he or she was an employee of Entergy, which is not a locally based corporation, and the equipment was out of Chicago. Entergy has since stated that the relay that shut down a portion of the power was set at exactly the same calibration as the relay that fed the remainder of the power. They are now refuting the Chicago company's claim that it was human error and was actually a faulty part.

So, once again, based upon what was known at the time, I may have been incorrect about the actual cause, although I did come to the same conclusion as did the Chicago company, who by the way, is now possibly at fault. And, the last time I checked, Chicago is not a suburb of New Orleans.