Massive black out hits san diego, 1.4 million without power - GoFuckYourself.com

Persius · 09-08-2011, 05:52 PM

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...ll-friday.html

The FBI cannot say if the power outage is related to the terror threat -NBC San Diego

Also Blackout shuts down San Onofre nuclear reactors

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...e-reactor.html

baddog · 09-08-2011, 06:03 PM

Once again, I picked the right time to leave home.

Sly · 09-08-2011, 06:19 PM

This sounds like a job for Jack Bauer.

mattz · 09-08-2011, 06:22 PM

I read that people heard a loud explosion by the Salton Sea

topsiteking · 09-08-2011, 06:24 PM

CRAZY!

RyuLion · 09-08-2011, 06:37 PM

yawn........

Caligari · 09-08-2011, 06:39 PM

eh, nothing about a terror threat in those news articles

Persius · 09-08-2011, 07:09 PM

interesting from earlier this year

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKb9A...ayer_embedded#!

F-U-Jimmy · 09-08-2011, 07:47 PM

A major power outage knocked out electricity to more than 2 million people in California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, taking two nuclear reactors offline, leaving people sweltering in the late-summer heat and disrupting flights at the San Diego airport.
San Diego bore the brunt of the blackout and most of the nation's eighth-largest city was darkened. All outgoing flights from San Diego's Lindbergh Field were grounded and police stations were using generators to accept emergency calls across the area.

The trolley system that shuttles thousands of commuters every day was shut down and freeways were clogged at rush hour. Police directed traffic at intersections where signals stopped working.

The outage extended from southern parts of Orange County to San Diego to Yuma, Arizona. It also is affecting cities south of the border across much of the state of northern Baja.

"It feels like you're in an oven and you can't escape," said Rosa Maria Gonzales, a spokeswoman with the Imperial Irrigation District in California's sizzling eastern desert. She said it was about 115 degrees when the power went out for about 150,000 of its customers.

In San Diego, Blake Albert Jordan, 20, saw a trolley come to a screeching halt as he neared the platform. Dozens of passengers emptied onto the tracks when the doors opened.

Jordan said he called about 20 friends and family to pick him up in San Diego's Mission Valley, where he was visiting a friend, to his home in suburban Lemon Grove. None offered to venture on the roads.

FBI officials ruled out terrorism while power plant authorities struggled to find the cause of the outage that started shortly before 4 p.m. PDT.

A transmitter line between Arizona and California was severed, said Mike Niggli, chief operating officer of San Diego Gas & Electric Co., causing the outage. The extreme heat in some areas also may have caused some problems with the lines.

"Essentially we have two connections from the rest of the world: One of from the north and one is to the east. Both connections are severed," Niggli said.

Power officials don't know what severed the line.

Niggli said he suspects the system was "overwhelmed by too many outages in too many places."

Niggli said relief was on its way, slowly. He said his 1.4 million customers may be without power until Friday.

The San Onofre nuclear power plant went offline at 3:38 p.m. as they are programmed to do when there is a disturbance in the power grid, said Charles Coleman, a spokesman from Southern California Edison. He said there was no danger to the public or to workers there.

The outage came more than eight years after a more severe black out in 2003 darkened a large swath of the Northeast and Midwest. More than 50 million people were affected in that outage.

In Arizona, about half of the city and about half of Yuma County had power Thursday evening after losing it earlier. Yuma County has about 200,000 residents and a little under half live in the city of Yuma.

"It's 113 degrees right now outside and 75 in my office," said Yuma city spokesman Greg Hyland, who was sitting in the dark, answering calls.

Five hundred to 2,000 SoCal Edison customers in southern Orange County and Riverside County are currently without power and there is no estimate for when power will be restored, Coleman said.

Capt. Mike Stone of the Orange County Fire Authority said several people were trapped and rescued at the tony Ritz Carlton hotel in south Orange County, Stone said.

In southern Orange County, the sheriff's department dispatched deputies to busy intersections because traffic lights were out, said John McDonald, a sheriff's spokesman. Outages were confirmed in San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Hills, he said.

Traffic was backed up in some areas, and the Orange County Register reported that fire crews were dealing with numerous calls of people being trapped in elevators.

scuba steve · 09-08-2011, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sly

This sounds like a job for Jack Bauer.

only if its season 1-3, the rest he kinda dragged on

alias · 09-08-2011, 08:19 PM

I wonder if they can top Long Island's recent record. Didn't juicy say something like 6 days.. .

DBS.US · 09-08-2011, 10:20 PM

They just said over 6 million with no power tonight

SleazyDream · 09-09-2011, 12:06 AM

big chunks of winnipeg went out tonight too...

must be aliens

DWB · 09-09-2011, 12:42 AM

+1 for being a little prepared for bad situations. Small food storage, water, candles, batteries, antibiotics, cash, and other basic survival needs.

Power can go out for 15 minutes or 15 days. No way to know which one it will be.

My Pimp · 09-09-2011, 02:41 AM

I doubt that this was a terrorist.

seeandsee · 09-09-2011, 02:48 AM

we had blackouts back in 90s every day

Sly · 09-09-2011, 05:40 AM

It's amazing to me that the difference between 2011 and the Stone Age for 6 million people is two lines that have hundreds of miles of sabotage exposure.

Nikki_Licks · 09-09-2011, 06:28 AM

The reports from our news channels claim it is because of some problems at our Palo Verde nuclear plant....

IllTestYourGirls · 09-09-2011, 06:30 AM

6 million people get power from that one plant? Damn! They really should just shut down all nuclear plants. No one is relying on them or anything.

RyuLion · 09-09-2011, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seeandsee

we had blackouts back in 90s every day

V_RocKs · 09-09-2011, 07:23 AM

I guess munki has nothing to say about the situation?

Horny Dude · 09-09-2011, 07:55 AM

I was one of those millions without power. Our power went out at 3:30pm and it didn't come back on till 3am. I've never seen San Diego so dark. Only a few stores were open and you had to have cash. Even the cell networks were screwed up.

Sophie Delancey · 09-09-2011, 08:17 AM

Damn, that sucks. I remember the outage of 2003 in Toronto on a sweltering hot day. Once it got cooler at night, it was actually pretty fun.

Rochard · 09-09-2011, 09:11 AM

I remember years ago I was driving from Northern California to Southern California when a massive power outage hit. We were listening to the radio and we thought "that's interesting" but didn't think too much about it. Until we were nearly out of gas and pulled off to get some. Turns out - no power, no gas.... And you can't get back on the freeway because you have no idea if you'll be able to buy gas at the next stop and you don't want to run out on the side of the freeway.

Crappy trip that was.

We seriously need to fix our infrastructure. This is stupid already.

teeheiman · 09-09-2011, 10:09 AM

Said we could be out out of power for over 24 hours, only lasted about 10 tho.

Back to work today!

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