Chile's national apagón, feb 25

[chalksquire]

Two related discussion threads that gave me a more insight.

Our fragile electricity supply

[postes2] The number of interruptions to the local electricity supply, due mostly to vehicle impact as featured on the front page of today’s local news struck me as slightly excessive for a Region that only has 0.5M inhabitants. They all took place over the last two weeks or so. Not mentioned is the one that left us without power for a couple of hours recently, as did one where a guy was electrocuted while attempting to make an illegal connection. but that was a couple of months ago.

and

Country-Wide Network Outages Caused by... "Imponderables Externos"

Personally I am showing at the moment that some sites like pcfactory and yapo are down…

This was a “dry run” in my opinion, I can’t even imagine a combination of earthquake, fires, floods.