needabiggerhammer t1_j571uop wrote on January 20, 2023 at 9:13 PM

Reply to comment by Thriftyverse in The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off by AStartIsBorn

Yeah, that is just a safety thing. Don't want the system going out and leaving everyone in the dark. Esp. if it went out because of an emergency.

Thriftyverse t1_j57e7db wrote on January 20, 2023 at 10:34 PM

And it's good that they bothered with safety, because they didn't really think all of it through when they designed it.

OAMP47 t1_j588xro wrote on January 21, 2023 at 2:20 AM

That suddenly triggered a decade and a half old memory from my time renting in college. Scheduled maintenance of the blocks' power grid. My apartment was accessible from an interior hallway on the second floor with no windows. Coming home from grocery shopping that was the day we all discovered the emergency lights in the building didn't work and it was pitch black trying to feel the way up the stairs and to anyone's unit door.