San Diego hit by major power failure 1.4million affected

[rsmith6621]

Source: MSNBC

SAN DIEGO — A major power failure hit a large part of Southern California on Thursday, including San Diego, the nation's eighth-largest city.

The problem extended from San Clemente, Calif., in southern Orange County south to Mexico's Baja peninsula and east to Yuma, Ariz. It cut electricity to millions of people, including 1.4 million in San Diego.
breakingnews.com: Get the latest on the California power outage

San Diego Gas & Electric Co. officials said there was a problem with a transmission line between Arizona and California that caused both major connections to the region to go out. They said that two units at Southern California Edison's San Onofre nuclear plant in southern Orange County went offline as a result.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44446563/ns/us_news-life/t/san-diego-hit-major-power-outage/#.Tmll3tSulGw

[global1]

1. Too Bad It Didn't Happen Yesterday During The Repug Clown Fest... nt

[itsrobert]

2. Us on the west coast don't count as far as media goes

The media is probably more concern with possible 4.0 Earthquakes on the East Coast.

[obxhead]

4. I guess you missed the source of this article. nt

[Tx4obama]

6. So, the power on the west coast has been out for less than 8 hours.

When hurricane Ike came to Texas we were without electricity for almost TWO WEEKS.
I betcha the power will be on soon in CA and AZ.

Anything less than a day or two is very manageable.

[gauguin57]

3. Major flooding in Northeast. Power outage in the West. Terror threat in NYC or DC.

Is it December 21, 2012, already?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Have to get past October 21, 2011 Judgement Day first! n/t

[Warpy]

7. What a perfect exclamation point to Obama's speech

saying we need to put people to work repairing and upgrading the infrastructure.

Tinfoil hatters on the far right will undoubtedly see a conspiracy.

[wordpix]

8. this whole region should run on solar power

Depending on King Cong (coal, oil, nuclear, gas) is absurd when you're in a sunny locale.

[kestrel91316]

9. We're sure trying - at least up here in LIBERAL Los Angeles!

[SoapBox]

10. Updates anyone?

[itsrobert]

11. Still out

BreakingNews Breaking News
Area without power covers more than 5 million people across US Southwest, Mexico - @AP

Arizona employee causes massive power outage:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/power-company-employee-caused-massive-blackout-utility-says.html

[and-justice-for-all]

12. ENRON, are you there?? nt