Solving problems as professionals

Most folks involved in operations remain focused on their tasks. They plan for problems and consider options.

Some civilians speculate that panic occurs when a problem arises.

This CBS clip, a teaser for a show tomorrow night, was inside the Superdome command post when the lights went out.

Frank Supovitz is the Senior Vice President for Events at the NFL.

Went to "manual override" within two minutes.

Note the interaction between Supovitz and SMG Senior Vice President Doug Thornton.

SMG manages the Mercedes-Benz Superdome facility:

From Thornton (guy in white shirt) "Frank, we lost the A feed."

Supovitz "What does that mean?"

Thornton "It means we have to do the buss tie."

Supovitz "What does that mean?"

Thornton "That means about a 20 minute delay."

More information from this CBS/AP February 4th item: Super  Bowl Power Outage: What Went Wrong

The outage generated 231,000 tweets per minute. 

I loved Audi's tweet:

The Oreo picture got the most response on Twitter:

Mike "FossilMedic" Ward