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San Francisco hit with massive power outage
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Posted on 04/21/2017 10:46:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A widespread power outage in a large swath of San Francisco affected several neighborhoods, prompting officials to close a train station while crews worked to restore electricity.

Power strug

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TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: electricgrid; powergrid; poweroutage
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1 posted on 04/21/2017 10:46:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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it’s kim dung cowpie!


2 posted on 04/21/2017 10:47:49 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: BenLurkin

Kim Jong Un?.................


3 posted on 04/21/2017 10:47:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: BenLurkin
Did an underground substation go ka-blooey? That's usually the case in New York City when a large area of any of the boroughs there lose power.
4 posted on 04/21/2017 10:48:31 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m guessing this means Our Lady of Maytag will not be agitating or spinning today...


5 posted on 04/21/2017 10:48:32 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: BenLurkin

The outage was probably caused by Global Warming.


6 posted on 04/21/2017 10:48:46 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: BenLurkin

When a big power outage hit NYC many years ago, 9 months later there was a baby boom.

In San Francisco, there will just be a shortage of love jelly.


7 posted on 04/21/2017 10:48:53 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: BenLurkin

Seriously, a few neighborhoods losing power is news?


8 posted on 04/21/2017 10:49:26 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: BenLurkin

Sum Ting Wong?

9 posted on 04/21/2017 10:50:17 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: AppyPappy

BART station closed due to it. Business district also.

It affects a lot of people.


10 posted on 04/21/2017 10:50:59 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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11 posted on 04/21/2017 10:52:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Exactly!


12 posted on 04/21/2017 10:52:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

didn’t this just happen in ny subway, too?


13 posted on 04/21/2017 10:53:17 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: BenLurkin

Just think of all the good this is doing for the environment. San Franciscans should be delighted.


14 posted on 04/21/2017 10:53:35 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Electrical substation fire.


15 posted on 04/21/2017 10:53:56 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: AppyPappy
Imagine if you will...

A city where 20% of the population is Asian...

and the traffic lights quit working in a power outage.

16 posted on 04/21/2017 10:54:14 AM PDT by lacrew
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17 posted on 04/21/2017 10:54:27 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Col Frank Slade
Confirmed--it was an underground PG&E substation at Larkin Street that caught fire. And electrical fires are dangerous to put out--those fires require special fire-retardant chemicals.
18 posted on 04/21/2017 10:56:21 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: brownsfan

I know no eeeeevil electricity to kill the polar bears. They should be celebrating and demanding is not be restored.


19 posted on 04/21/2017 10:56:28 AM PDT by matt04
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To: lacrew

People trapped on escalators.

It’s the Apocalypse.


20 posted on 04/21/2017 10:56:29 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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