Posted on 09/08/2011 11:24:24 PM PDT by NoLibZone
SAN DIEGO - A major power outage knocked out electricity to up to 5 million people in California, Arizona, and Mexico yesterday, bringing San Diego and Tijuana to a standstill and leaving people sweltering in the late-summer heat in the surrounding desert.
Two nuclear reactors were offline after losing electricity, but officials said there was no danger to the public or workers. San Diego bore the brunt of the blackout; 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.
Parts of Orange County regained power in the evening, but officials said most people would remain in the dark through the night.
The outage was probably caused by an employee removing a piece of monitoring equipment that was causing problems at a power substation in southwest Arizona, officials said. The power loss should have been limited to the Yuma, Ariz., area. The power company, Arizona Public Service, was investigating why the outage wasn’t contained.
Homes and businesses were darkened from southern parts of Orange County to San Diego to Yuma. It also affected 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 Tijuana, people wandered out of their hot homes into the street to cool off while restaurants scrambled for ice to save perishable food.
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Find the person and execute him.
When everything is said and done: that person will be the Gov of AZ.
Rough on the old and sick, my prayers go out for them.
Yes it is. Prayers for them tonight.
So fun to hear about power back in TJ first while your still a sweating in the dark American in America!
Well hell, I guess it's not causing problems now.
They have so little generating capacity that a couple of downed power stations leaves them blacked out.
Good thing we’re in a depression. Imagine what would happen if another 20 million Americans were working and those businesses were using power.
Affirmative action!
“The outage was probably caused by an employee removing a piece of monitoring equipment that was causing problems at a power substation in southwest Arizona, officials said. “
A perfect example of the Obama Principle.
Imagine if we had the EPA off the backs of energy producers...
The current occupier in chief has ONE concern: the first golf at the hole (I probably didn't say the proper).
The fact that one employee messing with some equipment can wreak havoc like this is very troubling.
I’m thinkin’ that the Chevy Volt would solve all our prllems. Imagine...
And the other 2 dozen agencies charged with bankrupting America.
Homeland Security said nothing ‘bout this being an issue...
If, in some alternate universe, there was no AC, there wouldn’t be many folks in that part of the country. Swamp boxes weren’t all that effective. However, the Eco folks would take us back to neither AC or evaporative. Actually, they would eliminate electricity for most of us by their proposals and the “efficiency” of green power.
“The fact that one employee messing with some equipment can wreak havoc like this is very troubling.”
One of the things I learned way back with the Y2K thing.
Just wait until we are all forced to drive electric cars!
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