Posted on 09/08/2011 4:50:52 PM PDT by dragnet2
Edited on 09/08/2011 4:55:11 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A large swath of San Diego County was without power Thursday afternoon as officials investigated the cause of the outage.
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I’m in East San Diego County. Power went out at about 3:37PM Thursday. It was out for more than 8 hours and just returned about 20-mins ago. Not a big issue for me and mine as we were prepared. I don’t like warm beer, though.
Thanks for that Excuse. We'll put you down as, "It's California's fault", even though the issue on the grid were located in Arizona.
I just got in BTW, and am enjoying the comments!
But a shortage of water wasn't the reason for our dams though. Hydroelectric power which was a legit reason, The Manhattan Project {another legit reason}, and FDR added saving us poor ignorant mountain folks from ourselves and our so called poor soil as the main cause LOL. That was the one that really angered people.
TVA flooded far more land and their rivers running full generation destroyed far more fertile farm land than any 1000 year flood could have possibly done. What I'm saying is government will have to be honest about it.
It looks like in Cali it will take flooding a lot of the northern valleys where it rains to feed water into the southern half. Killing two birds with ones stone the dams should be hydroelectric.
In addition some water would have to be piped a considerable distance or perhaps some river channels created to re-route the rivers from their discharge to the & sea sending the flow further south.
The next issue if I understand right would be getting other states to release water as well. That would just about take something like TVA or Corp of Engineers. There has to be a coordinator which is fair to all. One good secondary benefit of hydroelectric dams if done right is great Trout fishing. I'm serious. I'm about 15 minutes from some of the best Trout water in the southeast.
They’re building a new 500 KV line from SD to AZ and the crews working in the El Centro area have had 3 linemen die and about 7 have spent several days in the hospital due to heat stroke.
Power back in north eastern San Diego.
It’s incrementally being brought back on line.
Someone down in Arizona is going to gain some intense attention.
Chula Vista finally has POWER!!!!
Many were gathered around my radio wondering what they should do. I told them to go home and get their lighting and potable water stuff going before sunset, and that I would designate one guy to inform the block about developments.
A couple of neighbor guys started freaking out and ask if I or others on the street had weapons. I said unless this is a multi-day event, we are pretty much safe down here, so don't worry other than having water.
They didn't like the answer and asked again. I said no (as the 870 buck sat behind me) and I asked do you? They said no and then asked what to do if this were long term and the looters headed south to our area ? Told them, go home and I'd let them know as things developed.
Lesson: Even when small shit hits the fan in an upscale community, the unprepared want stuff or at least leadership. Funny that one of these guys is an Obama supporter and a whiny liberal that has lived here as long as I, and we never talk. BUT, knowing I'm ex-military; ex-long-haired Harley rider; loner; and rock n roller, he looks to me for help. The guy is at least 6'2".
On the up side, my next door neighbor and I spent most of the blackout talking about which arms to use and where to position them.
Of course, it never got that bad because the blackout didn't reach up to North Orange County (barrio country), much less Los Angeles. If it had, it would have been a bigger learning experience.
Being the hottest day of the year, just hope no old folks suffered or died.
“Thanks for that Excuse. We’ll put you down as, “It’s California’s fault”, even though the issue on the grid were located in Arizona. “
no sympathy for the state that re-elected McCain?
I’m in the electric utility business. I’ll look into the event today and try to dig up some hard facts. The media has historically been very poor (and very wrong) when reporting events involving the power grid.
south orange county just came on (2:15 am)
Great! I know how you feel.
Man, I’ll NEVER take our power for granted again!
all I heard was groans coming from up and down the hallway when the power went back on...as the kids knew that they weren’t getting a 3 day weekend by missing school today :o)
It’s always silly to jump to big conclusions based on little information. Solar flares my ....
Same goes for Nevada. They re-elected Reid, so they deserve whatever they get, too.
CUTE! I grew up in snowy Colorado and loved those snow days off from school.
So I know how your kids feel robbed! “;’^(
Now that's a good thing! LOL
We woke up to power coming back on early this morning around 1am. Seems everythinh in our house beeps when power returns!
All in all, a weird but uneventful experience for us...how about you?
I did, however, have full confidence that I could operate any weapon in the house if need be! :)
I woke up to a similar BEEP at 12:30am.
What a RELIEF! I do NOT want to be w/o power again, even in this paradise.
Did you know Chula Vista is supposed to be the best year-round climate in the nation? It’s the balmy bay breezes. When I had my studio in Coronado in the hot, hot summer, it was always so nice to come home to that steady bay breeze off the patio.
We’re spoiled! But even still, being w/o power, feeling helpless, is awful. And we were just w/o for 9 hours. I can’t imagine losing power for several days or weeks like the hurricane victims.
I thought sure it was a terrorist attack on 9/11 weekend, didn’t you?
It's always useful to have a sacrifice to feed to the predators.
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