Heathrow total shutdown

[Felon]

Mad how a fire in a single substation has knocked out 16k homes and all of Heathrow in one go!

Whole airport is shut until midnight tonight at the earliest, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s shut for longer, possibly days.

 

[Felon]

My guess is that Heathrow is a huge birds nest of stuff connected to the grid, some of it probably still from the 80s, 90s other parts of it more modern - with nobody really having a solid idea of what connected to what, until they had this failure and they saw for themselves.

I also imagine that the people in charge have been kicking the can down the road for years, and this was the end result.

 

[Felon]

Considering they have frequent "what if" security meetings, operations, and rehearsals, they were remarkably unprepared for what could have been a terrorist event.

I imagine like most companies, a large proportion of that will be box-ticking exercises, with little of it grounded in reality or of much practical use.

Maybe i'm being pessimistic, but it just feels like standards have dropped a lot in the last decade - and none of this really surprises me at all.

 

[Felon]

I’m fine with it in principle, it’s just another form of ID - if it simplifies and makes things easier, :shrugs:

I get the road to hell argument, but like others have said, we already hand over so much info to the government anyway….

The only problem I can see, is that the government will likely give the bid to somebody like Capita or Serco, who will keep 99% of the money, and farm the actual work out to a bunch of trash subcontractors from overseas.