Well, it doesn't break sewers.
http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/flush.asp

England turns on 1.75 million TEA KETTLES at the end of Eastenders each weekday.
FIVE hydroelectric plants go from 0% to 100% in 5 minutes to power them.
http://www.geek.com/news/tea-time-in-britain-causes-predictable-massive-surge-in-electricity-demand-1535023/

After Tiny Tim got married on the Tonight Show, so many americans
turned of their TVs and lights the power reduction almost tripped off
the power grid.
http://www.themcdonnellgroup.com/smart-grid-blog/tiptoe-through-the-smart-grid-part-ii.html


On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:42 PM, J O Skip Robinson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> (I'm traveling on Friday.) I've heard that during Superbowl commercial 
> breaks, municipal water pressure drops measurably.
>
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> J.O.Skip Robinson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
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> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 2:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job
>
> http://www.lucidenergy.com/how-it-works/
>
> More power!
>
>
> In a message dated 8/6/2015 2:48:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> [email protected] writes:
>
> And I  shudder to think what would happen here if every toilet were flushed 
> at the  same instant.
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