will tag with a weather thread too
Wonder if this will have any impact on Melbourne and regional Vic ratings overnight? Doubtful OzTam will issue a suspension of data (like due to Adelaide a few years back) with the reported 300-500k affected vs close to 7m population
A transmission line’s towers (Moorabool to Sydenham) were bent in half, causing the connections to the large Loy Yang power station in regional Victoria to trip and shut-down generator units.
There were also lots of critical infrastructure, government run (despite system security and redundancies), such as sets of traffic lights and associated communications blacked out, let alone many buildings mains power.