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Re:All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massi... by throwaway5752 on Sunday June 16, 2019 @09:08PM (#20199002)
They had massive physical damage from a powerful hurricane, their grid didn't just fail. Transmission lines and substations had to be repaired.

That is ignoring issues like Whitefish Energy among other things. Very different situation.

edit: yes, we know that nothing anywhere near comparable to hurricane Maria hit them.

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Re:All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massi... by da_chicken on Sunday June 16, 2019 @09:39PM (#20199150)
Do we know that there's been no grid damage in Argentina? It is the middle of winter.
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Re:All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massi... by wickerman on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:08AM (#20202070)
Most of the country has a very warm winter (yesterday I spoke to my mam and she said it was 16 C).

There's been grid problems since I have memory. Doesn't surprise me that the whole thing eventually went down.

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Re:All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massi... by cryptonector on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:06AM (#20200083)
Most of the population and the grid are in temperate weather zones that get little wintry weather.
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