Page 7 - Power Disruption News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Andrew back in the early '90s. irma is a lot bigger. we're talking about the infrastructure and the buildings in boca raton, were they built after? are you confident about the infrastructure in boca? >> yes. most of the newer buildings built in our city, of course, are under the miami-dade building codes which were the result of the catastrophe from hurricane andrew. the buildings are fine. the city of boca raton we spent a lot of money maintaining our inf infrastructure. we have been cleaning out our drain system in preparation for hurricane season and our system is prepared. we have 65 gener...

Power and light. duke energy or whatever. if the coal production is obsolete in the east, you are running a risk beyond belief as far as homeland security. if we lose our eastern power grid. >> bill: you made this proposal to the president directly. how did he respond? >> i think he really gets it. and he really understands it. and absolutely they are taking it into very serious consideration. this is not a way to expand gigantic coal tonnages but to put the coal miners back to work. if we don't do this we're willing to roll the dice and take a risk. just think, bill, we had the power go out o...

There has been reports of some disruption. this is not something like fukushima-daiichi by any means. there are reports of power disruptions. some plants shut down when you get a significant enough shake. it's being worked out exactly what their power problems are. we know in some of the cases the backup diesel generators have come on line. no problems with the cooling, no reports of any threat what so ever to those reactors. it's just that they've suffered some power disruption. and then getting to the fukushima-daiichi plant, the news seems to be -- good's never a word it use for the facilit...