DISPATCH 022KELL VALLEYT+00:00
11
Dispatch 022 / Winter grid failure
Days
of dark
A winter storm cut the Kell Valley grid. The lights came back on the eleventh morning.
Night 1 / Kell 400 kV ring
Line K-7 trips02:14
11
nodes still lit
Annotation: one fallen pylon, eleven towns and plants dark within a minute.
PLATE 01 / ILLUSTRATION / KELL NORTH SUBSTATION, NIGHT 1 (FICTIONAL)
Kell North substation
Day 1 / 06:30
Pylon K-7A 52 m lattice tower, snapped at the base by ice. Crews reach it on foot at first light.
Crews on site14
Annotation: every access road is closed by drifts.
Day 3 / What stopped first
Four things that stopped
Hospital
Kell General, 240 beds
62 h
of diesel left in the generator tanks.
Water pumps
Pump station 4, upper town
0 h
of pressure. Taps run dry above the river.
Bakeries
17 ovens across the valley
17/17
ovens cold. Bread is trucked in from the coast.
Schools
Kell Valley district
31
schools closed for the week, no heat, no light.
Outage log / Kell Valley
DAY 01
Back on the eleventh morning
Reporting Dispatch Desk 05 / All places, crews and figures in this film are fictional.