Lancaster.Lights: No thunderstorms thunderstorms a storm characterized by thunder and lightning caused by strong rising air currents; identified as agents of animal disease because of their involvement causing (1) spasmodic colic; (2) lightning strike; (3) injuries of cattle acquired in stampedes initiated by storms. or rolling blackout Rolling blackout refers to an intentionally-engineered electrical power outage, caused by insufficient available resources to meet prevailing demand for electricity. For information about accidental blackouts that are not intentionally engineered, see power outage. will affect traffic signals in Lancaster. The city recently started installing a battery backup See UPS. system at all 129 of the city's intersections. The technology will automatically kick on during an outage and either keep the signal operating normally or trigger the signal's red light to flash, telling motorists to treat the intersection as a four-way stop. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion