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Chicago When It Sizzles
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Heat Wave in Chicago
On friday afternoon, it was hot everywhere, but few places were hotter than the inside of transmission sstation one one four. At four, 56 p m, safety device overheated and shut down one of a set of four transformers. The third and fourth transformers didn't last long. Forty nine thousand customers lost electricity the next 24 hours. More than 13 hundred electrical equipment failures during the heat wave.
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