{"id":6338,"date":"2023-10-24T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:11:27","slug":"lost-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/lost-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UTRGV officials explain power outage procedures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timothy Chapman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-24-at-3.06.37-PM-1024x680.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-24-at-3.06.37-PM-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-24-at-3.06.37-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-24-at-3.06.37-PM-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-24-at-3.06.37-PM.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Timothy Chapman walking through dark hallway in UTRGV Edinburg campus<br>Jan Trejo \/ Vaquero Radio<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aRadio-power-outage-story-finished-version_mixdown.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">On Oct. 5, the power went out across the UTRGV Edinburg campus, leaving many students lost in the dark not knowing what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency Management Coordinator for UTRGV Pablo Mendez said there are two different power sources coming into the Edinburg campus to help reduce the possibility of a total blackout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cIdeally, what&#8217;s supposed to happen if one side of the campus loses power it should reroute from the other half of the campus,\u201d Mendez said. \u201cAnd that was something that was done with the local provider in coordination with our facilities, trying to work that out. This time, however, the break apparently ended up happening at some point before that system would even take place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Mendez, Facilities works with the American Electric Power company when it comes to figuring out what causes power outages on campus. He explained just about anything could cause the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cThey\u2019re at the forefront of that kind of incident and they&#8217;ll dispatch people to go and check out the different power lines, if you will, to see if there\u2019s anything that\u2019s down, any of the transformer boxes or any of the the breakers that tripped to see where that\u2019s at,\u201d Mendez said. \u201cAnd they communicate with AEP, which they\u2019re the only ones that can fix that kind of situation because it\u2019s not our equipment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, Mendez has seen all kinds of cases affect outages, including a car crashing into one of the light poles and a squirrel touching two of the power lines at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Chief of Police Van Slusser said during the event of a power outage, elevators on the UTRGV campuses are designed in a way to completely stop in order to keep the people inside safe. However, if they are not aligned with floor level, it would then take some time to get people out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cIf it looks like it&#8217;s going to be an extended outage \u2026 then there\u2019s ways that we can access those elevators,\u201d Slusser said. \u201cIf they\u2019re [on] floor level, we have keys that can open the door. If they&#8217;re not quite at floor level, then if it&#8217;s going to be an extended outage, then we can have the fire department come out there and assist with getting the students out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the best thing to do during a natural disaster is for students to stay up to date on university emails for alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cA big important part of that is making sure that their contact information is up to date with the university because all the students, staff, faculty are enrolled in emergency alerts, which go directly to the cell phone numbers on file and also the emails that are sent to the university email addresses,\u201d Slusser said.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Students, faculty and staff may visit their myUTRGV portal to update their contact information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Timothy Chapman for Vaquero Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UTRGV officials explain power outage procedures Timothy Chapman On Oct. 5, the power went out across the UTRGV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":6339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16],"tags":[555,68,41,44,26],"class_list":["post-6338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-edinburg","tag-555","tag-edinburg","tag-fall","tag-news","tag-utrgv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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