SAN DIEGO is a third world city. SAN DIEGO can't figure out electricity.

[Asher]

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110909-710366.html

Federal Regulators To Investigate San Diego Power Outage

U.S. energy regulators said Friday they are investigating the cause of a massive power outage in the San Diego area and parts of Arizona and Mexico that left more than 1 million people in the dark and caused a nuclear power plant to shut down.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said it is working to determine the causes of the outages, which started Thursday afternoon, and was coordinating with the Department of Energy, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., California and Arizona regulators, and other groups.

About 1.4 million utility customers in San Diego County, 56,000 customers in Arizona and a few hundred customers in Orange, Riverside and Imperial Counties in California and in parts of the Mexican state of Baja California, lost power after a transmission line transporting electricity from Arizona power plants to California failed, causing a large southern California nuclear power plant to shut down.

Power to all 1.4 million customers of Sempra Energy's (SRE) San Diego Gas & Electric utility was restored by early Friday morning, the utility said.

On Thursday, the loss of electricity from the transmission line forced an automatic shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear-power plant in San Clemente, Calif., which is operated by Edison International's (EIX) Southern California Edison utility, spokesman Paul Klein said. SoCal Edison didn't say when it would restart the plant. The plant's two units had enough grid electricity to operate the facility's safety systems, Klein said.

The power outage started at a substation near Yuma, Ariz., owned by Arizona Public Service Co., when a utility repair job caused a problem that caused the substation to automatically shut down, according to the utility. The substation outage spread to the transmission line, causing the downstream outages in California and Mexico, according to California's grid operator and utilities that were affected by the outage.

The substation outage near Yuma should have been isolated and shouldn't have spread to the transmission line, said Damon Gross, a spokesman with APS, which is a unit of Pinnacle West Capital Corp. (PNW). He added that the utility is investigating what went wrong at the substation and why the outage spread.

About 56,000 APS customers in Yuma lost electricity Thursday; all had been restored by Friday, according to the utility.

About 115 SoCal Edison customers lost electricity Thursday, according to the utility.

Wow! SAN DIEGO is ghetto.

[ZEE]

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[BlackCat]

You need to read more german link

[Asher]

Thread does not reference SAN DIEGO.

[Dinner]

It was actually a worthless zonie who screwed up the electrical system to the entire southwest US and northwest Mexico then when the voltage dropped the state took both of the nuclear power plants offline just in case resulting in big power shortages. We ended up having a blackout block party with people wheeling BBQs to the community pool, people setting up camping lanterns & tiki torches for light, someone brought one of those mobile wood fire brazers from their backyard, a battery powered radio for everyone to listen to, and half a dozen coolers filled with beer and soda. There had to be a hundred people who showed up for the impromptu block party. It turns out some college kids started it all and then all the nearby families and couples started showing up and bringing food to share. Some cities riot and loot when things go wrong but we throw parties.

[Asher]

[Dinner]

I was on city data forum earlier and some right wing jackass was saying how the godless liberals in California would probably riot and loot everything because, you know, that's what liberals do.

In reality, everyone kept forming nice neat lines at the check out, when street lights went out individual citizens took it upon themselves to start directing traffic at busy intersections so traffic could flow, people checked on their neighbors to make sure they were alright, and then they throw block parties all over the city since some people had electric stoves and couldn't cook on their own. Man I like living here, it's laid back but responsible.

[Dinner]

The really cool thing is you could see all the stars crystal clear because all the bright lights from the cities in Southern California were out. Usually all the city lights wash out the sky so you can't see much but last night the sky was just like being out in the middle of the desert it was so clear. I've never seen the stars that bright in the city before.

[Darius871]

Did you not click the thing before posting it, or are you just renewing the gag?

[Asher]

Wait, you watched it?

[Dinner]

I was thinking about Oerdin yesterday when I enjoyed my 74 degree air conditioning while eating my chinese dinner in a hot bath with my subwoofer bumping AAHZ-music for 2 straight hours

ya i was so worried about the voice coils burning out but i am still breaking that bad-boy in so...um what was this thrade about again?

The weather was nice, about 80 degrees, all the employers let people go home early since the power was out, and everyone on my block went to the swimming pool for an impromptu block party. All the burgers, brats, and steak you could eat. While the ice chests were stuffed with beer and soda. It was a great way to spend the blackout.

[Darius871]

Wait, you watched it?

It wasn't that bad.

[Ben Kenobi]

I thought the Chargers stayed.

[Dinner]

The only annoying things were cellphone lines were jammed during the blackout and not enough people conserved water after the pumps went out so the water pressure dropped and now the water department wants people to boil water before drinking it. Luckily, I have a bottled water cooler. I did notice that most of the white folks and hispanic folks listened to the mayor and tried to not use their cellphones except for emergencies but for some reason all the Asian folks just kept on yacking on their phones and complaining about not being able to get through. It's like, didn't you hear? You're supposed to keep the lines clear so people can contact emergency serves if they need to and yacking with your girlfriend about traffic probably doesn't qualify as an emergency. The English and Spanish language media were really good about getting the word out about directives from the emergency management center but some how it didn't seem to reach Asian immigrant communities.

[Berzerker]

how ironic, a power plant in SoCal needs power from a plant in Arizona

doh