London's Heathrow Airport resumed full operations on Saturday (March 22), a day after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe's busiest airport, causing global travel chaos.
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00:00Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty stressed out.
00:17Like I do have animals back home that I need to get to that I have to make arrangements
00:21for someone to look after since I don't know when I'll be able to get back home.
00:27I do have appointments leading up to teaching on Monday, so I'm hoping that I don't have
00:32to cancel class on Monday.
00:34I mean, stress, I'd say, because we're flying to Minnesota, but our college is in Iowa,
00:41so we're going to fly to my house in Minnesota and then we're going to drive back to school.
00:46So I guess just having less downtime to be prepared for school again on Monday.
00:50Yeah, having more of a break and also missing some family celebrations at home.
00:55My mom's birthday is tomorrow, so missing that is going to be a pity.
01:00Well, yeah, so we're engaged and we've had just horrible travel luck, it seems, our whole
01:04relationship.
01:05So, I don't know, we've had a hurricane out of season.
01:08You've gotten very sick.
01:09I've gotten sick twice on one trip.
01:12Yeah, interesting taxi drivers and Airbnbs and yeah.
01:15And now a power outage at the airport.
01:22With contingencies of certain sizes, we cannot guard ourselves against 100% and this is one
01:26of them.
01:27This has been a major incident.
01:28I mean, short of anybody getting hurt, this is as big as it gets for our airport.
01:34And we are actually coming back quite fast, I would say, when you consider the amount
01:38of systems that we have to shut down, then bring back up and make sure that they're safe.
01:43It's fueling systems, it's bridges, it's escalators, elevators, you know, all of these systems have
01:48to be brought back up, tested to make sure they're safe and put into operation.
01:52This is unprecedented, it's never happened before.
01:55And that's why I'm saying it has been a major incident.
01:58Of course, everybody has been shocked, but all our procedures have been working the way
02:02they should.
02:03I hope people appreciate that we do not close down the airport unless we have severe safety
02:08concerns.
02:09That's why we do it, was obviously that we lost a major part of our power supply.
02:14And I'd like to stress that this has been an incident of major severity.
02:19It's not a small fire.
02:20We have lost power equal to that of a mid-sized city.
02:25And our backup systems have been working as they should, but then they are not sized to
02:29run the entire airport.