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A significant part of the economy perhaps, but 'national security threat' is a somewhat higher bar IMHO. LHR has a role of convenience, but not necessity. If JF
by evgen 2y ago
A significant part of the economy perhaps, but 'national security threat' is a somewhat higher bar IMHO. LHR has a role of convenience, but not necessity. If JFK was shut down for a day or two and had limited operations for another week it would be inconvenient but would barely register in the national economic stats. I am on a flight heading out of Heathrow on Sunday for work travel and have booked an alternative out of Gatwick just in case. Inconvenient, but not a massive problem.
What will be telling here is how quickly things adapt to the disruption. I expect to feel more impact from the loss of power to businesses in the surrounding area that are involved in air shipment than in the flight disruptions (e.g. cold chain logistics and inventory management for just-in-time processes that warehouse near the airport.)
- traceroute66 2y ago> What will be telling here is how quickly things adapt to the disruption. Most people won't have to. The substation area covers 62,000 properties, but only 4,800 are actually without power as a result of the incident. In addition they are expecting restoration of power by 15:00 same-day.[1] [1] https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#QQ0573 https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#QQ0573
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- FartyMcFarter 2y agoThat link isn't working currently, and when I checked it earlier it was referring to an outage which started late yesterday night. So I'm not sure it was relevant.
- Symbiote 2y agoAccording to the news reports, the fire started at roughly 23:30.
- bookofjoe 2y agoUTC? ET?
- Symbiote 2y agoConsider reading the article if you need this much detail on the topic.
- FartyMcFarter 2y agoLocal time.
- traceroute66 2y ago> So I'm not sure it was relevant. It is. If you read the text on the link it very much describes the situation, e.g. talking about the substation. Second, the start time and other data (e.g. number of properties affected) correlates with that stated by the London Fire Brigade on their website[1] [1] https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2025/march/fire-at-electrical-substation-hayes/ https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2025/march/fire-at-...
- FartyMcFarter 2y agoOh, I see. My apologies, for some reason I thought the fire started in the early morning hours.