Run down to your loco train tracks and flag down a trains! https://www.thedrive.com/news/39378...-city-hall-for-power-after-a-brutal-ice-storm
There was a time back in the 70’s or early 80’s that the US Navy had a couple of its nuclear powered cruisers supply power to Seattle during a huge storm. Of course when I tried to find an article about it to post here, I could not find it. If I remember right one of the cruisers was the USS Bainbridge.
As a native of that County, I do not recall such a Navy intervention. Trying to recall a big storm which might match. We had quite a doozy of a snowstorm in November of 1985, just before Thanksgiving. There was one in January of 1980. Of course the famous Columbus Day wind storm of 1962. The Inauguration Day wind storm of 1993. It has been rainy, windy and snowy so many, many times around Puget Sound.
During the ENRON deal many locomotives were used as power generators. I was involved in more than a few applications.
I know for a fact it wasn’t the Inauguration Day storm... that was my 18th birthday, and I had a blast, I love big storms. This was much before that and I think before I was born or at least really young. I will try to find it again. I do remember it was one or both of the nuclear cruisers that were used.
Found an article about the Lexington helping Tacoma. This was well before the article I was talking about, but interesting all the same. https://futureforce.navylive.dodlive.mil/2015/08/electric-ship-propulsion/ I will keep looking.
Massey, all I know it was some time ago but, it was on the news. They probably don't have many of those in Texas.
Corpus Christi has a naval base, but I doubt that there are all that many in the Navy today that actually realize what the ships can do beyond what they were trained. I know this as I was not too long ago a sailor and found that the higher the rank the less outside of the box thinking was. trains on the other hand are plentiful in Texas!
BoxcabE50, I remember the Columbus Day storm down here in Vancouver WA. I watched the neighbor's tin shed roof go by our house about six feet off the ground. Later we piled in my 57 Chevy and drove around to see the damage -not too smart!
During the Inauguration Day storm in 93, I threw a chain saw in the back of my truck and went around clearing the roads of downed trees. Later that year I chopped the wood and sold about 6 cords. I made some good cash. One guy driving a Mercedes was trying to push a down tree off the road in his nice business suit. Hell that suit was prolly $2000 by itself. When I pulled up on the other side he said if I could get it off the street to he could get by, he would pay me. So I get out the chain saw and cut it into rounds and threw them into my bed. The only bill he had in his wallet was a $100 (he actually had a few of them) He gave it to me anyway, I said not to worry about it, but he insisted as he offered to pay me for helping. That was a pretty good birthday!
I thought you were going to say that the Hawaiian tropics girls were stuck and that coincidently they were looking for a new oil boy when you came to the rescue with your chainsaw.
IIRC, many years ago a ship or ships from Naval Station Mayport provided power to Jacksonville, FL after a hurricane. Though I can't find any reference after a quick search.
