[Eva]

I thought that it was a lighning strike at Niagra Falls that caused the outage.

The Bush speech was planned. They said he would not endorse a candidate for California govenor (that was before the outage).

[GraniteStateConservative]

What was the reason for addressing the country from San Diego tonight prior to this blackout? In 2001, it was stem cell research. I hadn't heard he was preparing to announce anything newsworthy.