Lovely. Avista Power/ inentional blackout in Spokane (Spokamentro)

yellow rose said

Yeah, I figured crop irrigation was taking a beating. I’m watering my lawn twice a day, 7 days a week and it’s still barely staying green. I can’t imagine trying to irrigate crops in this weather, especially if you have to use human power to move the pipes (BTDT).

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Fortunately modern irrigation is nearly fully automated. Lots of web based apps and telemetry with most of the pumping requiring 460V 3 phase power and lots of it. The labor pool for hand irrigation disappeared with the last generation's graduation from high school. Zigs is correct though, we are used to it, just not this much this soon. And it is a long way to October:-(