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Magic bullet theory
After hearing about the breaker malfunction that knocked out power for two hours to parts of Downtown and the West Side, City Manager Mark Brandenburger told officials to look for a bullet.
A transformer leaking oil and past history sparked his suspicions about the cause of the outage.
“People with rifles have taken pot shots at our transformers,” he said.
However, Brandenburger said initial investigations have not found any bullets. He sent me the following email as an explanation of the outage.
“In answer to your question, I just talked to a chief engineer in our electric system, Butch Mikesell. He informed me (and I’m paraphrasing as best I can) that an internal weld failed inside of a mineral oil filled tank (and that tank is 1 of 3 tanks that make up a circuit breakers in the power yard across from the Power Plant). When that weld failed, certain parts broke and fell and made the kind of inappropriate contact that ultimately resulted in the power outage. So, that tank was not shot with a rifle or anything of that nature; instead, the outage was caused exclusively by the failure of this internal weld.”
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