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Posted on 09/02/2006 10:48:20 PM PDT by bd476
News on local Fox News Channel 11 reports a power outtage affecting LAX. More as announced.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Coincidentally, almost one year ago on September 12, 2005:
NBC 4
DWP: Human Error Led To Widespread Outage
Outages Extend From San Fernando Valley To Downtown
POSTED: 12:53 pm PDT September 12, 2005
UPDATED: 10:18 am PDT September 13, 2005
Ron Deaton, general manager of the Department of Water and Power, said workers accidentally cut a line at a DWP receiving station, then connected it to another line "that was not expecting that amount of electicity."
Deaton said the system is designed to shut down when it receives too much power.
Power officials reported outages from the San Fernando Valley to downtown Los Angeles. Receiving stations take high-voltage power from generating stations and convert it to lower voltage. It can then be used throughout the city.
Power to DWP customers went out at about 1 p.m.
The cable was rewired, according to authorities, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said power was restored to 90 percent of Los Angeles customers within two hours of the outage.
Power was restored to all areas by Monday night.
Traffic lights, including ramp meters, were affected by the outages. Police reported several minor traffic incidents. About 1,500 of the city's more than 4,500 lights had to be manually reset.
"It was completely dark -- we had no air conditioning." - Sue Morris, woman trapped in elevator...
Excerpt and more: DWP: Human Error Led To Widespread Outage
Thank you bd476.
Updates appreciated.
Yikes, I drive there whenever I fly out and then park in one of the cheaper lots and take one of the buses to the departing terminal. By danger, are you referring to the drive there or around the area??
Thanks Cindy, will do.
Heard anything else?
I'll be in the shower...let me know!
No and I'm searching. Looking on other channels and standing by for top of the hour. Someone should have more info.
Didn't they fix this last month?
Ontario. The only way to fly.
LOL, okay!
I know it is totally uncalled for and ridiculous in this case, but everytime something unusual happens at LAX, I immediately remember that this is the only airport in the USA terrorists have tried to blow up.
Top story local channel 7, South Los Angeles; Two young women shot at birthday party. Shot by stepfather.
No mention yet of power outage.
Michael Moore opening and closing his refridgerators all night will do that...
And let's not forget this one:
Los Angeles in Crisis as Fear Grips City
Los Angeles Times
December 12, 2005
Horror and disbelief swept through the greater Hollywood area this afternoon as a minor power outage turned the city into a virtual war zone and local residents struggled to deal with the devastating aftermath.
The outage struck at 1:35 PM, during L.A.'s busy afternoon coffee and Pilates rush hour. Traffic lights fell dark, local gyms and sushi restaurants were without power for nearly thirty minutes and many businesses were illuminated only by the light of the sun and its blistering 78 degree heat.
"It was horrible," said out of work actor and voice-over artist Rick Shea. "I was in a Jamba Juice on Melrose when it hit, and the blenders simply shut down. A woman lunged for my Berry Lime Sublime and after that – well, it got pretty ugly."
In the ensuing panic, local radio stations broadcasted conflicting reports as to exactly which local businesses would be offering relief supplies. Almost one hundred people flocked to the Starbucks at Santa Monica and La Brea only to find helpless baristas, no hot coffee, and a totally meager selection of baked goods.
"My mother is eighty-three years old, and we heard on the radio that this Starbucks was going to be up and running. If she doesn't get a venti Arabian Mocha Sanani, I don't know what's going to happen to her, I really don't" said Lucinda Merino of Los Feliz.
To make matters worse, those few people who did manage to get coffee were further thwarted by a total lack of artificial sweeteners on site.
"Sugar in the Raw? Are you fr*gging kidding me?" sobbed local homosexual, and avid salsa dancer, Enrique Santoro. "I'm on the South Beach Diet and my insulin levels are going to go crazy if I use this. Why isn't the rest of the country doing something?"
Deteriorating conditions will force authorities to evacuate the thousands of people at local Quiznos, movie theaters and upscale shopping centers, including the Beverly Center, where a policeman told CNN unrest was escalating. The officer expressed concern that the situation could worsen overnight after patrons defaced multiple "So You Think you Can Dance" posters, looted a Baby Gap, and demanded free makeovers at a MAC cosmetics store during the afternoon.
At least two thousand refugees, a majority of them beautiful, will travel in a bus convoy to Beverly Hills starting this evening and will be sheltered at the eight year-old Spago on North Canon, where soft omelettes with confit bacon and Hudson Valley foie gras were being airlifted in by the National Guard.
Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Johnny Grant, told a group of embedded reporters at a Koo Koo Roo Chicken restaurant on Larchmont that, "The scope and scale of this disaster is almost too much to comprehend. Local carwashes are at a stand-still, the tram tour at Universal Studios has been on hold for almost an hour now, and I've been waiting for a rotisserie leg and thigh with a side of greens beans for upwards of fifteen minutes. This truly is our Tsunami."
"We want to accommodate those people suffering in the Beverly Center as quickly as possible, for the simple reason they've been through a horrible ordeal," Grant said.
"We need water. We need edamame. We need low-carb bread," said Martha Owens, forty-nine, who was one of the thousands trapped in the Beverly Center when the escalators stopped moving. "They need to start sending somebody through here."
Along miles of coastline, the power simply surged, causing writers to lose upwards of a page of original screenplay material, causing Direct TV service to work only intermittently, and forcing local residents to walk outside and look helplessly at the Pacific from their ocean view decks.
"I can hardly begin to put this experience into words," said longtime Two and a Half Men writer John Edlestein. "I was just getting into my rhythm, and making some real headway on a scene where Charlie Sheen parties with a busload of female volleyball players, when my Power Book crapped out. I have nothing. Simply nothing."
Delivering his weekly radio address live from the White House, President Bush announced he was deploying more than seven thousand additional active-duty troops to the region. He comforted victims and praised rescue workers. "But despite their best efforts, the magnitude of the requirements involved in providing relief to a disaster area this sunny and trendy has created tremendous problems," he said. "The result is that many of our citizens simply are not getting the help they need, especially in the Hollywood Hills, and that is unacceptable."
Nothing coming up on Google search other than August 2006:
Sensor in faulty landing system replaced at Los Angeles airport
Santa Maria Times, CA -Aug 18, 2006
... cited other recent troubles, including a power failure July ... are eight local localizers at Los Angeles International _ ... at each end of the airport's four runways ...
Q&A: Long and short of Meadows runway
Bakersfield Californian (subscription), CA -Aug 30, 2006
... energy source to avoid losing both in a power outage. ... been routed to Fresno or Los Angeles because of ... Administration, which collects taxes on airport fuel and ...
Flights at Los Angeles airport back to normal, some slight delay
The Desert Sun, CA -Aug 7, 2006
... planes onto a runway at Los Angeles International Airport ... a utility pole, causing a power fluctuation that ... The airport averages 1,800 daily flights and will ...
Equipment failure disrupts flights at Los Angeles airport
Hindu, India -Aug 7, 2006
... arriving planes onto a runway at Los Angeles International Airport ... in three weeks to disable part of the airport. LAX was hit with a major power failure July ...
Landing system outage hits LA airport for second time in a week
San Jose Mercury News, USA -Aug 15, 2006
... said Lydia Kennard, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports, a ... The airport has had multiple problems in recent ... affected by a July 18 power outage at a ...
Landing system outage hits LA airport for second time in a week
North County Times, CA -Aug 14, 2006
... The FAA also ordered Los Angeles-bound flights departing from ... The airport has had multiple problems in recent weeks. ... affected by a July 18 power outage at a ...
Boxer Calls for Probe of LAX Flight Control Systems
Los Angeles Times, CA -Aug 18, 2006
... with answers given for the July power outage in Palmdale in ... in delays of 348 flights at Los Angeles International Airport and reverberations ...
Landing system failure strikes LA airport twice in a week
San Jose Mercury News, USA -Aug 15, 2006
... in an unrelated incident, a power outage blacked out more than 71,000 utility customers, including Los Angeles City Hall ... At the airport, the same system on the ...
California News in Brief
San Jose Mercury News, USA -Aug 8, 2006
... was the second serious problem in three weeks to disable part of the Los Angeles airport. On July 18, the airport was crippled by a power failure that ...
FAA still hasn't solved landing system failure at LA airport
San Jose Mercury News, USA -Aug 15, 2006
... equipment," Lydia Kennard, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports ... one of multiple problems the airport has had ... affected by a July 18 power outage at a ...
I was just going to say Ontario. Only airport we used when we lived in Yucaipa. One time I used LAX and rented a car before we moved out there. It was the last time because I didn't like the neighborhood you had to drive through to get in and out of the airport. Pretty bad when you don't want to stop for a traffic light but want to just keep right on moving!
This just in:
Just a very short blurb on local news KABC Channel 7:
Power outage of unknown cause, affecting businesses around LAX and some businesses within the terminals. Bars and stores inside "the terminals" have experienced power loss and I believe they mentioned the Delta terminal as one of the terminals affected.
No reports of any flights being affected.
..."the Delat Terminal..."
Thank you bd476.
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