Power outages hit Los Angeles

[benburch]

I'll post a link ASAP.

EDIT: link thanks to Steve_DeShazer: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/12/la.power.outage.ap/index.html

Changed title from "WBBM-AM 780 Chicago reports "Large portion of L.A. CA has lost power"."

[David Zephyr]

1. Please advise.

I'm out here and we have not experienced this in our area.

[benburch]

2. I'm looking now.

They said it was JUST on the AP wire.

[bigbrother05]

86. Where's Brownie when we need him?

Didn't the latest al Qaida video say they would target LA?

[radwriter0555]

37. A construction worker in the north valley hit a primary cable, knocking it

out. Edison will get it handled pretty quick.

[petronius]

43. Did the worker survive? (nt)

[malaise]

75. So why is CNN speculating about

the reason for the outage. Stewwwwwwwwwwwps why must everything be made into one big 'scare everyone'. Wolf is going on and on about terror threats. He mentions the threat and then says Homeland security says this has nothing to do with terror. Have they all gone mad. I swear they have a plan to whip everyone into a frenzy.

[radwriter0555]

85. Why on earth do you expect entertainers to be respectable and of merit?

You don't take paid actors on CNN seriously, or consider that stuff actual news, do you?

You know it's all just acting, and reading lines, right?

It's not real. It's just purely entertainment now.

[goclark]

111. I live in LA, we have had brown outs all summer

Someone told me that they were taking turns in various areas of the city.

Maybe every three days our lights have been out for 2 -3 hours.

Saving Arrrnold money I guess.


Don't think this is connected but don't know.

This time the lights did not go out in my area.

[kestrel91316]

117. That's awful - what area are you in? We just had the lights go out

for 1 second with today's power glitch (San Fernando Valley). I think downtown got hit the worst? Stuck elevators?

[goclark]

120. Near the airport- ---

Hope this doesn't keep happening.

The other day I forgot how to lift my garage door manually. : (

[kestrel91316]

122. I know how that is, I can't ever remember how mine works by hand either.

[goclark]

125. Mine - you pull it toward the door to release

the red cord I mean.

Then turn it the other way when your power comes on, you pull it away from the door.


I found out the hard way. : )

Good luck, we may need to use the feautre many times.

[ronnykmarshall]

88. Is it Edison or DWP?

We are on Edison hear at work and at home.

[benburch]

97. If the worker was a Democrat...

The Freeps will be blaming us and/or Clinton again!!! :rofl:

[David Zephyr]

112. Thanks.

[kahleefornia]

84. "mechanical failure at receiving stations"

Being reported on CBS2 in LA - DWP says 2 receiving stations down, they're working on it.

[katty]

114. Power back on--one local official said: "We don't need FEMA"

-indeed, they are useless

[Bob3]

3. this spooked me - the only thing that hasn't happened

on *'s watch yet is an earthquake.

[kahleefornia]

no quake..and power's still on here..

???

[JoFerret]

5. Clearly Bush is more than a moving disaster

...he is an actual plague.

[canichelouis]

73. hoping for some more looting perhaps?

[ronnykmarshall]

90. Well I'm white so maybe I'll "find" something.

[Fuzz]

92. Find me some stuff too

:)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

119. I've got a pair of thongs* I stole(found) on my neighbor's back porch.

Any takers?

:shrug:








*Used

[IndyJones]

124. LMAO

[shanti]

44. doesn't bad news come in threes?

:scared:

[Horse with no Name]

110. It does

But we have already had OUR trifecta.

1. Bush being pResident
2. 911
3. Katrina

We should be safe..unless of course the next cycle of three starts.
:scared:

[Up2Late]

4. Both CNBC and FOX "news" had a graphic up to the same effect.

Neither has switched to reporting on it yet.

[zoeb]

6. Send in Mike Brown!!! He has tons of experience!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[leftofcool]

32. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

34. what? you want to flood out LA too?

fer shame!

[AngryAmish]

62. He's tanned, he's rested...

[Fuzz]

93. And has a little bit of a margarita hangover

:)

[babylonsister]

7. CNN confirming. nt

[Up2Late]

8. CNN too.

Still trying to figure it out. "The Situation Room" is on it.

[abbeyco]

9. On CNN/Wolf right now

says from Downtown to San Fernando Valley area.
Do not know cause yet.

[jayfish]

10. Is This The End Times...

for America. I mean good <Deity>, our country is crumbling under the foot of the fascistic capitalists.

Jay

[jayfish]

20. Oh, And When Is The Recall Election To...

replace Ahhhhnold scheduled.

Jay

[benburch]

11. Radio just said "Two large power surges" nt

[NNN0LHI]

12. ITS OSAMA! n/t

[darkism]

14. NO, IT'S ADAM!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SCARY! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! TERRA! TERRA! TERRA!

[mod mom]

76. Adam schmadam, thats KKKarl!

[benburch]

15. LOL

Sounds more like what we call a "power cross" to me.

[jpak]

Alien Tripods emerge from ground

use Heat Ray against fleeing populace...

:evilgrin:

[NewWaveChick1981]

13. Holy crap!

Can you say Armageddon???? LOL

[stevedeshazer]

16. link (not much)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/12/la.power.outage.ap/index.html

[JoFerret]

23. A case of the jitters

.

[calimary]

17. Briefly, evidently. Don't know how long, but my husband and I were

out running errands and some signals were out. When we got home, a computer alarm was sounding, indicating a power failure. And our microwave oven and VCR were blinking.

Probably everybody here has tight sphincters, what with that purported al Qaeda warning... and of course the precedent for how MARVELOUS our federal government is for protecting us...

[Garbo 2004]

18. Just getting on AP no details.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050912/ap_on_re_us/power_outage_1

[undergroundpanther]

19. Sunspots?

We have had 7 big flares that could intterrupt power grids,cell phoones harm satellites ,
Is Bush Exploiting sunspots to scare us as if there was a terror threat.. Oooga Boooga!? Maybe there is no terror threat!
Remember the power of nightmasres the BBC thing..

[stevedeshazer]

28. *ding*

Could very well be, but we'll see.

[undergroundpanther]

29. Here,look

Sunspots
http://www.spaceweather.com/

power of nightmares
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm

Don't be scared! The Bushies need you hiding it gives them power to manipulate what you focus attention on,.

[Up2Late]

64. OMG, The Ter-rrists have crashed a spaceship into the Sun, (Photo)

Just look at that Coronal Hole! (I'm joking of course)

Coronal Holes:

There are no large coronal holes on the Earth-facing side of the sun.Image credit: NOAA Solar X-ray Imager.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[undergroundpanther]

81. Magnetic sun farts?

[Lori Price CLG]

21. HAARP? Just before the US stock market closes for the day...

Don't want to effect the US stock market, of course.

Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

[paper chase guy]

22. Westwood here....

Don't know if we're running generators now, since the elevators have been shut down.

[cally]

24. MSNBC reporting it's been 25 minutes

and LA power thinks it's a transmission problem. Affecting San Fernando and LA basin.

[ToolTex]

101. Don't say basin. FEMA will start pumping water in.

Heck, maybe they are diverting all the power to the pumps now. Are there any poor people in L.A.?

[goclark]

115. Not too many left, average home prices probably 300 T

[Up2Late]

25. Power Outages Extend Across L.A. Area (KNBC)

<http://www3.sympatico.ca/ralway/tvdirect/welcome.html/MAINusa.htm>

<http://www.nbc4.tv/index.html>

Power Outages Extend Across L.A. Area
Outages Extend From San Fernando Valley To Downtown

POSTED: 12:53 pm PDT September 12, 2005
UPDATED: 1:19 pm PDT September 12, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- Power officials are reporting more outages Monday afternoon from the San Fernando Valley to downtown Los Angeles.

A major portion of the San Fernando Valley reported outages. Outages in the Valley occurred from Studio City west to Woodland Hills.

Several schools are without power. Students are being kept in classrooms.

Sporadic outages occurred in downtown Los Angeles and the Koreatown area. Traffic lights are out throughout the area.

(more at link)

[scarletlib]

35. My daughter in North Hollywood just called--she has had no power for

at least 20 minutes now.

[kestrel91316]

118. Woodland Hills here - only a brief failure (1 sec). Fine now.

[karlrschneider]

26. M$NBC showing aerial footage of traffic, all (?) traffic lights out...

yikes

[colonel odis]

27. that'll teach people to give bush a 38% approval rating!

[daleo]

30. Yikes, Enron is back!

All the Bush chickens are coming home to roost.

[dweller]

108. Aunt Millie still must have

a nickel left.

dp

[AlCzervik]

31. if this were a rolling blackout *usually* you get a heads up first

at least where i live in No. California.

[Up2Late]

33. Large Portion of Los Angeles Loses Electrical Power (KABC)

<http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3436473>

Large Portion of Los Angeles Loses Electrical Power

LOS ANGELES - A large portion of Los Angeles was blacked out Monday when electrical power was lost.
The power got knocked out shortly before 1 p.m. after two power surges.

Traffic lights throughout downtown and the San Fernando Valley were not working, causing major traffic problems, according to video from helicopter news crews.

Downtown highrises also were darkened.

The city's department of water and power said it was investigating the cause and extent of the outage.

<http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3436473>

(More at link, still developing)

[kat21]

36. Funny, we're in West LA and the power did not go out until -

around 1:15 for about 10 minutes. I don't know if we are on back up generators now or not.

[radwriter0555]

40. I used to work very closely with the West LA station and during the EQ of

94, those guys were miracle workers. They'll take very good care of you and have you back to normal in no time at all. It's just a construction co accident is all.

[Podface]

38. Not to worry

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html?

It's the dems fault there have been major sun flares in the last few days.

[MADem]

79. No, Bill must have pointed the CLENIS at the sun!!!!! n/t

[Barrett808]

39. Solar flare? Sun's String of Fury Continues as 7th Major Flare Erupts

Sun's String of Fury Continues as 7th Major Flare Erupts
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 09 September 2005
10:33 pm ET
Updated 12:36 p.m. ET Sept. 11

An ongoing series of seven major solar flares, including two on Saturday, could disrupt communications on Earth and generate colorful sky shows for people at high northern latitudes for the next several days.

Already satellites have been affected. Even more serious effects are possible this week.

The spate of activity from the Sun is being generated by a large sunspot named 798. Sunspots are cooler and darker regions of pent-up magnetic activity. When they unleash their energy, it's a bit like the top coming off a shaken champagne bottle.

The sunspot is just rotating into view, so its energy has been directed sideways and not directly at Earth. In coming days, if more major flares erupt as forecasters expect, they'll head right at us and radio blackouts, cell phone dropouts and other communications disruptions are more likely, scientists said.

(more)

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/050909_solar_flares.html

[benburch]

42. Absolutely could be.

LA's power gets "wheeled" in from far away. Long North-South transmission lines are very vulnerable to the sorts of geomagnetic disturbances a solar flare can cause.

[undergroundpanther]

65. What gets me

I know alot of people are scared,angry and vilagent over Katrina and all the bushy bullshit goin on. We CANNOT let Bush's Pr assholes use this power outage from sunspots to distract us from Katrina and the administrations failurses as huiman beings,,If they do that shit and we fall for the ignore the bad men,Hey look over here shiny object ploy ..Plese folks don't stampede away to the next feigned disaster on cue when CNN goes Ooga Booga Plleeeease!

[jayfish]

61. I Could See That Sunspot With The Naked...

eye this mourning. It was slightly unnerving. Just after I had to remind my son not to look directly at the sun. :dunce:

Jay

[Up2Late]

67. I hope you eye wasn't completely Naked, hows you eye sight...

...right now?

[jayfish]

77. It's Alright.

The sun appeared gigantic and was very low on the horizon. It didn't burn to big of a hole in my retina. :evilgrin:

Jay

[undergroundpanther]

78. Huge fucker ain't it?

Our universe is going through changes Venus has lost most of it's sulpherous clouds..Look to hyperdimensional theory..fascinating stuff

http://hubblesite.org/discoveries/hstexhibit/spacetime/planets.shtml
http://www.halexandria.org/dward237.htm

http://www.enterprisemission.com/weblog/2005/09/hyperdimensional-katrina-new-evidence.html

[benburch]

96. Venus cloud chemistry changing???

If true, I wonder if we failed to sterilize those landers we sent there properly?

[Zhade]

71. ARG! I'm not looking forward to work Thursday.

This is my weekend, and since I work in satellite broadcasting...this means more headaches for me when I get back to work.

D'oh!

[Up2Late]

41. Major Power Outage Reported In L.A. (KCBS)

<http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstoriesla_story_255162353.html>

Major Power Outage Reported In L.A.

Sep 12, 2005 2:19 pm US/Pacific
LOS ANGELES (CBS) The lights went out across a wide area of the Southland today, but it was not immediately clear what caused the outage.

Electricity service was lost in North Hollywood, Burbank, West Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles and South Los Angeles, among other areas.

The outage affected electricity service at LAPD headquarters.

Fire department emergency operations were not immediately impacted by the outage, said Ron Myers of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

<http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstoriesla_story_255162353.html>

(LIVE Webcast at link above)

[truthpusher]

45. Power Outages Extend Across L.A. Area

link will update: http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4962885/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news

Power Outages Extend Across L.A. Area
Outages Extend From San Fernando Valley To Downtown

POSTED: 12:53 pm PDT September 12, 2005
UPDATED: 1:19 pm PDT September 12, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- Power officials are reporting more outages Monday afternoon from the San Fernando Valley to downtown Los Angeles.

A major portion of the San Fernando Valley reported outages. Outages in the Valley occurred from Studio City west to Woodland Hills.

Several schools are without power. Students are being kept in classrooms.

Sporadic outages occurred in downtown Los Angeles and the Koreatown area. Traffic lights are out throughout the area.

Emergency services are operating, according to authorities.

Power officials have not said what caused the outages.

(snip)

complete story: http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4962885/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news

[SodoffBush]

46. Hurricane? Earthquake?

Or too many ACs running full blast?

[shraby]

47. Temperature is about 72 degrees right now so

it probably isn't ac.

[kahleefornia]

48. solar flare!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1774624

[leveymg]

51. Solar flare report was from last Wednesday

Considering it takes 9 minutes for radiation to travel to earth, I don't think there's any connection.

More likely, Enron is counter-attacking.

[5X]

53. Light travels that fast, not solar particles that

disrupt communications and cause aurora.

<http://prop.hfradio.org>

[Beetwasher]

55. They Were Expecting More Solar Flares Though

So this could be a new that just happened today.

However, It may not be...:shrug:

[Zhade]

87. I just called work - no reports of solar flare interference.

As noted above, I work in satellite broadcasting (DirecTV), so if there had been flares significant enough to knock out power here, there would have been channel losses caused by those same flares.

Work reports no outages due to flares, but a number due to power failures.

Don't know if that's useful, but there it is.

[indypaul]

49. "Girlyboy" electrons blowing fuses. n/t

[morgan2]

50. hurricane? floods? mudslides?

no wait its John Roberts' hearing.

[skooooo]

52. voodoo

[radwriter0555]

54. Construction worker and a badly placed back hoe.

Whoops.

[Zhade]

56. Yep, just got back home from driving around the block.

Saw some streetlights out, which gave me relief - I thought the DWP had cut my power due to a late payment yet to be made!

EDIT: I'm in the L.A./Venice/Santa Monica nexus area, fwiw.

[rzemanfl]

57. CNN large portion of Los Angeles lost power. n/t

[doxieone]

58. Los Angeles (major portion of same) Has Lost power ! CNN (breaking)

no lin.

[undergroundpanther]

60. SUNSPOTS PEOPLE

We have had some big ass flares..
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Don't be scared Don't do the terra ooga booga boogie bush and CNN wants us to do,to distract us from Katrina issues.

[Roy]

59. CNN already speculating on the white al Qeida threat

nt

[Garbo 2004]

74. Was that Wolfie or someone else? Putzes. n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

80. Terra! Terra! TERRA!!!

Poll numbers down ...... ol' Browie had t' quit!


Terra! TERRA!!! TERRA!!

[Lochloosa]

63. Accident....public works cut a line...not a terrorist attack

too bad for bush:sarcasm:

[ronnykmarshall]

66. We are ok in the east side.

I don't know about my house yet.

I hope no one is caught in the elevators in my building.


Any one know how long will fish tanks be ok?

[hadrons]

68. quick, blame Grey Davis

[ronnykmarshall]

95. Just wait .... freepers will sure to do that.

[MADem]

69. Saw that on TV, they seemed a little concerned n/t

[lonestarnot]

70. What's dis about?

[Podface]

72. God I hate Blitzer

They are such fucking idiots.

Not a mention about the solar flares that have been cranking out for days.

But of course a mention about the terra threat video including LA.

AGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRGGGG

[bigbrother05]

82. Power outage in LA

Wide spread outage in So Cal. Where's Brownie now that we need him.

[Big Kahuna]

83. methinks something really bad is about to happen.

I pray I am wrong.

[Massacure]

107. A solar flare took place earlier today.

I wonder if that is the cuase of the power failure.

[Up2Late]

89. CNBC reporting: Power beginning to return to effected areas

And Wow, what a Hot looking Female Anchor woman they have (Sort of looks like Angelina Jolie).:evilgrin:

On Edit: "An accidental Power cut at a Power distribution station."

[BrightKnight]

91. .

[PCIntern]

94. Like power surges

in London...surged al the way to a frigging BUS...

[BrightKnight]

100. A little distraction for the Brownie out. - n/t

[Up2Late]

98. KCBS UPDATE: Major Power Outage In L.A. (KCBS)

Major Power Outage In L.A.

# Terrorism Not Suspected

Sep 12, 2005 2:19 pm US/Pacific
LOS ANGELES (AP) A blackout hit a large portion of the Los Angeles area Monday afternoon, snarling traffic at intersections and trapping people in elevators.

The city was investigating the cause of the outage. But Sgt. Catherine Plows, a police spokeswoman, said terrorism was not suspected.

The electricity was knocked out shortly before 1 p.m. after two power surges, and outages were reported from downtown to the coast and north into the San Fernando Valley, an area encompassing hundreds of thousands of residents and thousands of businesses.

Los Angeles International Airport lost power, but its emergency generator kicked in promptly, and no flights were affected, said Harold Johnson, an airport spokesman.

<http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstoriesla_story_255162353.html>
(more at link above)

[The Minus World]

99. The Crater That Was L.A.

The power was out for about 40 minutes, if I timed it correctly. I was on the road, talking to someone who was on a landline that cut out when the outage happened.

After a couple of stutters, the power came back online at about 2PM.

All corporate-news sponsored terror hysteria aside, people seem to have handled this rather casually.

[symbolman]

102. First of all I HATE the "Situation Room" on general principal

and Secondly WHY was a "Situation Room" CREATED for CNN?

All the hallmarks of perception management - Situation Rooms denote WAR, Carnage, destruction all needed to be cleaned up by big strong men with the latest in technology and the wisdom of the ages.

WAR, WAR, WAR..

Thirdly, don't they realise that constant editing on a large scale (of course it's confusing, they DO want that, once confused a person will be more likely to accept what they are told)makes people (at least me) uncomfortable..

Nothing like seeing Wolfie and whoever surrounded by death and mayhem to make the association mentally that they are like BAD NEWS and you don't want to SEE THEM..

Bizzarre really, Wolfie sitting there with a bunch of papers wagging a pen around as he floats through one scene of disaster after another - sort of has a "Triumph of the WIll" kind of feel to it, without the crowds, voyeristical..

then there's that stupid table with the words on it so oblique you can't read it, like a screwy bar table..

all the Land masses are shown in RED with blue laser waves passing below it, like War of the Worlds on Election day.

Really dumb, but the perception control is on the mark I believe, and it worries me that BushCo will be one disaster after another for the rest of his term and CNN KNOWS IT..

Hold on to your seat, personally I moved to Hawaii, fuck 'em :) I live on the outer edges of the New Roman Empire..

[ToolTex]

103. Anyone in touch with anyone in Melbourne, Australia?

Yesterdays threats were for LA and Melbourne.

[bac511]

104. -- Major power disruptions throughout the city of Los Angeles,

according to the L.A. Fire Department.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/12/la.power.outage.ap/index.html

[Mountainman]

105. Well do we get to blame Arnold? Grey out Arnold now?

[bac511]

106. -- Major power disruptions throughout the city of Los Angeles,

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[doc03]

109. Hmm! Terror threat yesterday for LA today a guy

with a backhoe knocks the power off to the city. What are the odds of this happening?

[fedsron2us]

113. Well it takes the public's mind off all the dead people

lying in the streets of New Orleans.

[WhiteTara]

116. 100% n/t

[The Wielding Truth]

121. Found this simple explanation from an independent tv station in LA

Utility workers connected the wrong wires and caused a blackout across major portions of Los Angeles on Monday afternoon, trapping people in elevators and snarling traffic at intersections, authorities said.
ttp://www3.sympatico.ca/ralway/tvdirect/welcome.html/MAINusa.htm

[The Wielding Truth]

123. sorry ........ go to KCAL 9

www.kcal.com/