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If you did'nt already know this morning there was a power cut affecting large parts of the Wirral.BBC Radio Merseyside reported that all of the wirral was affected as far south as Frodsham.Here everything just died including the phone line for about 30 mins .I lost a mornings work I had done on a CV did it affect anyone else?

I don't think there was a powercut over my end?

think were ok here too !

bromborough area

Liverpool Echo

Thousands of Wirral homes hit by power cut
May 27 2008 Kevin Core

THOUSANDS of homes had no electricity after two power stations were unexpectedly disconnected from the National Grid.

Businesses in Wallasey, Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port and even as far as Runcorn were also hit at around 11.30am.

Scottish Power was inundated with calls but they were able to quickly isolate the national power source as the problem.

A spokeswoman for the National Grid, the country’s biggest utility, said: “Two power stations came off the network unexpectedly within two minutes of each other, shortly after 11.30am this morning.

“This caused a drop in frequency.

“The system is designed to protect the majority of UK electricity demand, by automatically disconnecting a small proportion of demand to bring frequency back to safe operating levels.

“All available electricity generation was brought onto the system as soon as possible and we are now working with the electricity distribution network operators to reconnect customers as possible".

I`d just posted a pic, edited my post then `dink` it went off, phew, i was lucky to have posted quick enough

just had a phone call off my dad, it went off as far as runcorn and some areas of warrington

ye need to get a lap top r kid. good old battery

all depends on if you have wireless internet there mate or if you are on a service that requires a modem

i was in a no win situation when it went off

laptop battery flat
broadband modem needs mains power
router needs mains power

i was sound m8 ;)got t-mobile web"n"walk usb stick and 4hours ov battery life

All our Virgin services went off (TV, phone, internet) but we never actually lost power to anything. (Beechwood)

lol

Wallasey

Yehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

In work its all off, phones, pc's and the god dam kettle

And as the lad in work spoke the words,
This will be off until tomorrow, dink dink the lights came on.

Priceless lol

Nothing in work (Tranmere)

But it went off at home (Claughton)

Aye the power went off here too, and it was off at Landican crematorium and it went off at Rhea's this morning.

Pain in the ass it was haha I thought it was just me at first.

Driving around locally was murder with no lights on anywhere!!

It amazes me how the national grid, given we are developed country and highly dependent on electric, can put so many lives in risk by doing stupid things like this... 2 power stations were unexpectedly disconnected wtf, they need to sort it out so it dont happen again or jib off and let someone else run it lol!

Apparently 5 Stations Tripped the National Grid.
Something there not telling us.