On 3/02/2009, at 1:46 PM, Simon Allard wrote:

  

Its in the herald, it must be true!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10554954

    

Since they checked with Vector... yes, it probably is true.


Major faults and outages � Current
Transpower outage affecting eastern suburbs
Date: 03-02-2009 01:31 pm

Transpower's transformers at its Penrose substation have faulted  
causing an outage affecting approximately 74,000 customers in  
Auckland�s eastern suburbs.

Must've been Megatron stealing all of Transpower's Spark...