London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage

Post by s1artibartfast » Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 4:47 AM UTC

idiotsecant wrote: post #228

ziddoap wrote: post #66

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" [...] national security is widely understood to include also non-military dimensions, such as the security from terrorism, minimization of crime, economic security, energy security, environmental security, food security, and cyber-security. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security Large-scale issues that impact the economy are typically under the "national security" umbrella. It's a term that uses the broa…

I am not sure I am enthusiastic with the slow march toward 'national security issue' being synonymous with 'me personally being spooked by something'.

Post by oefnak » Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 5:26 AM UTC

4ndrewl wrote: post #205

Symbiote wrote: post #201

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Then your comment about rowing across the sea is idiotic. The airlines that redirected flights to Paris arranged buses to London.

Having thought about it you're correct. Even if you over inflate your tyres it won't provide enough buoyancy even for the smallest Euro-car. An alternative reading to it 'being idiotic' is that it was clearly an exaggeration to prompt some critical thinking about the original claim.

Post by chrisandchris » Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 6:07 AM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #227

margalabargala wrote: post #191

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> When Heathrow goes down, you’re proper stuck. Atlanta has DC, Miami right there "right there" It is a ten hour drive from Atlanta to DC. It is a nine hour drive from Atlanta to Miami. It is a six hour drive from Heathrow to Paris.

It's still "right there" overall, you can take a local flight that takes one hour. Most importantly, you're in the same country whereas in the case of LHR closing the number of airports able to handle widebody long haulers...are essentially all in countries with different customs and visas.

Post by MisterSandman » Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 7:48 AM UTC

sss111 wrote: post #189

joshuanapoli wrote: post #155

It's not the first time a major airport is down because of power failure, and other airports are working to address this type of vulnerability. > The power vulnerability for airports was never made more obvious and painful than in Atlanta seven years ago. An underground electrical system fire in late 2017 damaged two substations and caused a complete outage lasting nearly 12 hours at Hartsfield-Jackson International…

Heathrow's power outage is much worse than Atlanta's, this is really bad. Allow me to make my point: 1. UK’s has one major airport to get out of the country—Heathrow. Gatwick and that lot don’t carry the same weight. When Heathrow goes down, you’re proper stuck. Atlanta has DC, Miami right there. 2. UK allows transit visas, so half the people transiting can’t even step out the terminal, what do they do when the airpo…

Post by zimpenfish » Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 8:41 AM UTC

medstrom wrote: post #238

przemub wrote: post #180

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I needed to look up „natch” lol

Why don't you tell us too? For anyone reading: it means "of course"