Third largest city in California without power

[geetrue]

(http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=SAN%20DIEGO&sty=h&form=msdate)A major power outage knocked out electricity to up to 5 million people in California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, bringing San Diego and Tijuana to a standstill and leaving people sweltering in the late-summer heat in the surrounding desert.

They said some tech guy changed out a faulty monitor and caused it.

Five million people without power till late friday.

Can you imagine all of that frozen food wasted?

[Growler]

Gonna be about 100-110 degrees in Palm Springs/Coachella Valley today. Welcome to the desert again, folks. Hope the folks in Idyllwild and elsewhere in the mountains are bracing for hordes of folks trying to escape the heat.

[Rockstar]

Microsoft corp reported a crashed too

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/your_money/crash-affects-millions-of-microsoft-users-20110909-ncx

They claim it was due to power losses as well. Yet this was about the same time my hotmail account got hacked.

[Gerald]

Backup generators should be.

[Armistead]

You guys can't be serious, 5 million without power, kiss about 10 million if refig goods goodbye.

[Jimbuna]

Couldn't even begin to imagine that many people here in the UK :o

I doubt the temperature would ever be such a problem though :)

[Growler]

Saw a report in passing that the problem's been resolved, and faster than they thought - appears to be mostly over, at least in San Diego:
http://outages.sdge.com/publicOutageWeb/images/outage_13_58_25.jpg

[Pioneer]

Power finally restored to all areas 24 hours after the incident.

Cause of failure: one lone maintenance technician in Arizona doing some work.

A personal commentary: 10 years after the event of 9/11 we live in this world of "heightened security" where, for me, I'm ineligible to do the exact same job that I did in my home country on the basis of a "security threat" by not being a citizen. However, the infrastructure which is supposed to maintain our "heightened awareness" can be brought down by one guy.

Imagine what could have happened if that technician has put his mind to it?

[geetrue]

Cost estimate of SoCal outage tops $100 million (http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18863384)

Just 24 hours cost over $100 million dollars in lost revue.

[Highbury]

I doubt the temperature would ever be such a problem though :)

You have obviously never been in San Diego without air conditioning lol.

My wife was was down there when the power went out, I had to feed her info about what was going on because she obviously had no power to do so. I did make another thread about it just after it happened but it migrated off the first page. :03: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=187666

[Jimbuna]

Nope, never been there with or without air conditioning....but if it's anywhere near as hot as Texas (where I have been) then it sounds kinda 'hot enough'. :doh: