Since the stadium did have some power, I don't see how it could be have been Entergy's fault.
I suspect they tried to be too fancy with the lights: [link]
t knee-jerk defense
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Feb 03, 2013 6:38:48 pm PST #9880 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Nora Deirdre - Feb 03, 2013 6:41:38 pm PST #9881 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Ah, sorry Ginger. I had more a knee jerk urge to mock. Not entirely fair, I know.
Ginger - Feb 03, 2013 6:48:23 pm PST #9882 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I do agree that Entergy is a dorky name, but it's much shorter than "many podunk power companies smushed together."
Java cat - Feb 03, 2013 6:50:57 pm PST #9883 of 30001
Not javachik
Also Google the Amy Poehler-Superbowl ad.
smonster - Feb 03, 2013 6:59:28 pm PST #9884 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Ginger, those exterior lights have been up and running for a year or so. Maybe they did some upgrades inside? Probably not Entergy's fault, true, but their reputation here is... not great. Could be the city forgot to pay their power bill because of Mardi Gras - supposedly NOLA forgot to pay their server bill a few years ago during Carnival and couldn't issue any construction permits for weeks. Around here, no telling. I will say it made me root harder for the Ravens, because all jokes aside, I did *not* want the Legend of How NOLA Lost Balmer the Super Bowl.
Lee - Feb 03, 2013 7:05:31 pm PST #9885 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I got to have dinner with shrift! There was pho involved.
\\o/
brenda m - Feb 03, 2013 7:15:24 pm PST #9886 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I liked the Clydesdales and the Oreos library commercials.
The Taco Bell one too. Also, extra point to Oreo for this: [link]
(And note the time - within about 10 mins of the power going out.)
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2013 7:19:09 pm PST #9887 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The "cleanup" of the google image results has extended to the UK and Jamaica now. I can only assume it's everywhere. And that'll learn me--I should have saved the results, because that search I ran before doesn't give the same results anymore, so I can't find the picture I was using as a lighting reference.
Watching This Means War. This movie is psychotic on so many levles. Like psycho enough to love, and then enough to freak me out. I wish they were sowing the boy on boy ending, though, given that all the endings are basically equal.
meara - Feb 03, 2013 7:25:02 pm PST #9888 of 30001
Watching This Means War. This movie is psychotic on so many levles. Like psycho enough to love, and then enough to freak me out. I wish they were sowing the boy on boy ending, though, given that all the endings are basically equal.
I actually bought the DVD, I liked that movie so much. Though I disliked the ending in theaters. Hrmph. Also, I wanted her whole wardrobe in that movie. (And to look like her in it, but...)
Ginger - Feb 03, 2013 7:32:14 pm PST #9889 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm sure Entergy has many faults, but since the outage was confined to the Superdome, the odds are in favor of a problem with Superdome equipment. My wild-assed guess is that the Superdome maintains its own substation and a transformer blew. They may have underestimated power usage.