That’s really lame to lose Nat Gas during a power outage. In 25 years of Nat Gas service I never had to do without. Even during a 5 day power outage. They need to fix that!!!
Well everything is controlled by SCADA, you lose power, backup generators turn on, they last about 3 days before they run out of fuel. Once the generators are dead, you lose communications to the system, once that is lost the systems assumes there is a catastrophic failure in the gas or electric grid, which then turns off both systems, which control the generators...its a triangle of systems for the grid and if you have a failure in any of the parts of the system long enough, you can lose the entire system. Then you have to manually turn things back on, which requires power and communication at each specific point to get the gas back on which runs a lot of power plants. Those said power plants then power the grid and communications networks. Not an easy or cheap fix if there is a serious national disaster. Tim
