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Title: One of those weeks...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 21 March 2025, 06:08:09
Get to work on Tuesday, park on the roof of the multi story staff car park.

Just start boarding passenger and get an email saying that said car park is close for emergency repairs.

Get to Seattle to another email saying that no cars have been damaged and that the car park is still closed but we'll be able to collect our cars without issue.

Just boarded to come home when a passenger announced that Heathrow is closed until midnight because of a fire in Hayes.

Get back to the hotel 5 hours later.
Title: Re: One of those weeks...
Post by: johnnydog on 21 March 2025, 07:01:30
Gosh, that's terrible......
Title: Re: One of those weeks...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 21 March 2025, 07:06:09
I wasn't looking for sympathy ;D
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Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 21 March 2025, 07:07:32
Sounds like you were bloody lucky that the car park didn't collapse!  ;D
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Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 21 March 2025, 11:27:59
I wasn't looking for sympathy ;D

Perhaps a 23 year old Norwegian trolley dolly can help ease the executive stress. :)
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Post by: Andy B on 21 March 2025, 14:30:05
I wasn't looking for sympathy ;D
I believe the only place you'd find that is in a dictionary   ;)
Title: Re: One of those weeks...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 21 March 2025, 14:32:30
Sounds like you were bloody lucky that the car park didn't collapse!  ;D
Yet :-X
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 21 March 2025, 14:34:02
I wasn't looking for sympathy ;D
I believe the only place you'd find that is in a dictionary   ;)
Between shit and syphilis if I recall.
Title: Re: One of those weeks...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 21 March 2025, 14:35:33
I wasn't looking for sympathy ;D

Perhaps a 23 year old Norwegian trolley dolly can help ease the executive stress. :)
My GF is currently in Vancouver... Which is frustratingly ironic
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Post by: TheBoy on 21 March 2025, 20:41:13
How the hell doesn't Heathrow have backup generators??

We have a datacenter just over the road, maybe we can through some big cables over!
Title: Re: One of those weeks...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 21 March 2025, 21:32:24
It wouldn't surprise me if they'd plugged in all their electric carpark buses and they back fed the system. >:D
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Post by: Rangie on 21 March 2025, 21:38:56
How the hell doesn't Heathrow have backup generators??

We have a datacenter just over the road, maybe we can through some big cables over!
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It's really hard to believe what's happened, talk about bad planning .
Title: Re: One of those weeks...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 23 March 2025, 14:45:19
It really isn't  :-X
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 23 March 2025, 14:54:54
The passenger who first said about Heathrow being closed was rebooked onto my flight back last night. He and his colleague made up for the extra two days by drink all the Cabernet Sauvignon. He was saying that out of a group of 10, they were the third people to arrive back and that apart from 1 person on the earlier flight, the rest were getting back tomorrow.
Title: Re: One of those weeks...
Post by: BazaJT on 24 March 2025, 08:53:33
The blame game is well underway. National Grid say there are two other substations that could have been brought on line so there was no need for the airport to shut down.Someone questioned whether Heathrow would know this,but surely there should be contingency plans in place other than just shutting the airport? After all to rely on just one power source is madness. It's also being said that the boss of Heathrow decided to go to bed and left it to his deputy to deal with the situation.
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Post by: Varche on 24 March 2025, 16:34:42
Also said that switching power would need systems to be brought back on line. Surely you plan for that?
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 March 2025, 19:48:43
Be interesting to see what the CAA have to say on the matter.
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Post by: Raeturbo on 24 March 2025, 22:11:19
Apparently they are saying it would have cost ten to fifteen million to give them the temporary power they needed from the grid, although that is definitely far less than it is going to cost them now.