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Massive power outage in San Diego/Orange County/Tijuana/Parts of AZ | |
Tatlantis
 User ID: 1529265  United States09/09/2011 01:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Some could be without power until Saturday Quoting: UseLess RepEATER An unprecendented power outage led to controlled chaos Thursday throughout San Diego County and surrounding areas as 1.4 million residents coped with the sudden loss of electricity, and officials say power will be restored in waves through Saturday. The outage began at 3:38 p.m. after a 500-kilovolt high-voltage line from Arizona to California failed, triggering a cascade of events that then knocked the San Onofre nuclear power plant offline. Those are the two major power sources for the region. Besides the county, affected customers reside in eastern Arizona, Baja California and southern Orange County. The power failure led to school and business closures, suspended water service in some areas, flight cancellations, blacked-out traffic lights, silent radio stations and trapped elevator passengers. Public schools throughout the county and several high-education institutions will be closed Friday... Read the Rest Here: [link to www.signonsandiego.com] Why is a simple power outage controlled chaos in S. California, but a much longer power outage coming from a hurricane and torrential rains does not cause chaos on the east coast? Is it cultural? How do you know there isn't chaos and mayhem on the easy cost as we speek ? You do not. I hear Pennsylvania is getting wet. "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pike • The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. • “Your Majesty, please… I don’t like to complain, But down here below, we are feeling great pain. I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, But down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. We turtles can’t stand it. Our shells will all crack! Besides, we need food. We are starving!” groaned Mack. “You hush up your mouth!” howled the mighty King Yertle. “You’ve no right to talk to the world’s highest turtle. I rule from the clouds! Over land! Over sea! There’s nothing, no, NOTHING, that’s higher than me!” |
| HANGFIRE
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1531674 United States09/09/2011 01:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why is a simple power outage controlled chaos in S. California, but a much longer power outage coming from a hurricane and torrential rains does not cause chaos on the east coast? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1456495 Is it cultural? Well those rains are common and predicted. You expect them to happen. These power outages are sudden and people just don't know what's going on. I mean if you see a huge storm and the power goes out, ok the storm caused it. imagine you're at work and the power just completely goes out for no apparent reason. Phone lines are dead you can't get a hold of anyone. Its confusion and chaos, people over there probably thought "terrorism, aliens, nuclear explosion" you really just don't know what hit you. And ill chime in and say that its very hard to believe one person randomly knocked over a chord and shut down power for half the west coast. Absolutely. When someone cut the line INTENTIONALLY in the Bay Area and it COMPLETELY cut off Santa Cruz County and other ares from the rest of central California, it was FREAKY. The power went out on a beautiful sunny day. There was NO reason for the power to go out. It was not a heat wave. There was ZERO communication in or out of our area with the rest of the world. It caused alot of concern and confusion. And we are a small town area with a sliver of freeway running through it. We are not a large metropolitan area like the area affected. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1055324 United States09/09/2011 01:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SOMEONE FROM CALIFORNIA....please answer... How is another country (mexico) on the same grid as the US? Are people from Mexico paying their electric bill to the same company that supplies electric to california and Arizona? I dont get it and never heard of this. |
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| Biochemky
User ID: 919411 United States09/09/2011 01:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Just reported on local LA KCAL Channel 9 news that the cause was an employee moving equipment...WTF???? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1071143 Really, that seems like a load of BS! What about the explosion reported by people near the Salton Sea? I doubt some dumb bonehead would accidentally move equipment on one of the hotter days of the year and it would take out the entire power grid extending into AZ and Mexico! Our best guess on page 4 of this other thread: Thread: Breaking -New York and DC Going Under HOMELAND SECURITY ALERT & Multi City Multi State Sudden Power Outage (Page 4) ...is that the massive power outage was initiated when there was a geothermal explosion in/near the Salton Sea. There were multiple witnesses who heard a very loud explosion in that location. The idea is that the geothermal explosion was so hot that the heat charged the grid up and blew it. The explosion came from what channel 3 (multiple viewers) said was the abandoned area near the Salton Sea that is on this video. This area is the southern tip of the San Andreas fault in the salton Seismic Zone, as well as the Cerro Prieto Geothermal area and the Brawley Seismic Zone and geothermal area. [link to earthquake.usgs.gov] Isn't the Salton Sea where Dutch was saying there were plumes? Is there a dormant volcano there? Regarding Dutch and the plumes. Yes, I believe so. That is what I thought too. And, yes, there is a not so dormant volcano there. The Salton Sea geothermal field lies in the Salton Trough, the landward extension of the Gulf of California, an area of active crustal spreading. The Salton Buttes volcanoes lie within the Salton Sea geothermal field. [link to vulcan.wr.usgs.gov] Here's Dutch's "plume" video that involves an area near the Salton Sea: Last Edited by Biochemky on 09/09/2011 01:05 AM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1541259 United States09/09/2011 01:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How is another country (mexico) on the same grid as the US? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1055324 Are people from Mexico paying their electric bill to the same company that supplies electric to california and Arizona? I dont get it and never heard of this. I have been wondering the SAME thing..... extremely high voltage lines are shared, what do you expect? |
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| peacerebelgirl
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1531674 United States09/09/2011 01:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How is another country (mexico) on the same grid as the US? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1055324 Are people from Mexico paying their electric bill to the same company that supplies electric to california and Arizona? I dont get it and never heard of this. I have been wondering the SAME thing..... Googled it and found lots of answers on the grid. [link to www.theenergylibrary.com] |
| HANGFIRE
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| TrixieMama
User ID: 1311280 United States09/09/2011 01:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SOMEONE FROM CALIFORNIA....please answer... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1055324 How is another country (mexico) on the same grid as the US? Are people from Mexico paying their electric bill to the same company that supplies electric to california and Arizona? I dont get it and never heard of this. [link to buildaroo.com] This is a different type of power, wind but we do share/trade with them. This geothermal... [link to thinkgeoenergy.com] "I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me" Phillipians 4:13 "I shall call upon the name of the Lord who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from mine enemies" Psalm 18:2-4 "In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God." Psalm 62:6-8 "He must become greater; I must become less.” John 3:30 |
| Tatlantis
User ID: 1529265 United States09/09/2011 01:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And so it begins.....Large rock thrown through a window of an animal hospital in Clarmont at Target shopping center. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1541419 Catapulted? Trebuchet "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pike • The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. • “Your Majesty, please… I don’t like to complain, But down here below, we are feeling great pain. I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, But down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. We turtles can’t stand it. Our shells will all crack! Besides, we need food. We are starving!” groaned Mack. “You hush up your mouth!” howled the mighty King Yertle. “You’ve no right to talk to the world’s highest turtle. I rule from the clouds! Over land! Over sea! There’s nothing, no, NOTHING, that’s higher than me!” |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1298967 United States09/09/2011 01:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | make the best of the situation and look at the stars, no lights to get in the way, I bet the show is fabulous!! Quoting: Watcher4All  I'm on east coast, just survived 5 1/2 days of no power, and believe it or not most of our food including meat made it through. Things were very peaceful, and my kids did something normal instead of staring at computer all day long. It was stressful but not altogether bad. Well it's probably the most peaceful your city and Southern California has been in many many years. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1534325 United States09/09/2011 01:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Most likely NO WHERE. NO WHERE. PEOPLE WRITE ANYTHING ON THIS THREAD, DOES NOT MAKE IT TRUE. LISTEN TO YOUR GUT, YOU'LL BE BETTER INFORMED...sadly. Until I get an awaited for phone call, I can say for sure the Alpine area (east San Diego) does not have power. Baja back up and running. [link to www.signonsandiego.com] |
| HANGFIRE
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| Wally the Mantis
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1541503 Mexico09/09/2011 01:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SOMEONE FROM CALIFORNIA....please answer... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1055324 How is another country (mexico) on the same grid as the US? Are people from Mexico paying their electric bill to the same company that supplies electric to california and Arizona? I dont get it and never heard of this. [link to buildaroo.com] This is a different type of power, wind but we do share/trade with them. This geothermal... [link to thinkgeoenergy.com] I´ll answer that question for you. |
| closing eyes
User ID: 1530062 United States09/09/2011 01:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SOMEONE FROM CALIFORNIA....please answer... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1055324 How is another country (mexico) on the same grid as the US? Are people from Mexico paying their electric bill to the same company that supplies electric to california and Arizona? I dont get it and never heard of this. No offense but we probably pay their power bill! Last Edited by closing eyes on 09/09/2011 01:15 AM If you woke up breathing, you have another chance! |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1541425  Germany09/09/2011 01:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just wanna say...it is definitely NOT an emp attack. Why? Because it actually takes out all small electronics...and all newer cars.. Quoting: Butterfly girl Unless it was a selective EMP attack. That is bullshit you idiot. There cannot be a "selective" EMP attack. If it's big enough to blow out the power grid it's big enough to take out small electronics. Guess you did not pay attention during your electrical engineering studies. |
| TrixieMama
User ID: 1311280 United States09/09/2011 01:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | According to Twitter, 18,000 customers in Orange County have power restored... KFINEWS KFI NEWS San Diego Gas and Electric says power has been restored to 18,000 customers in Orange County. 5 minutes ago tarawallis Tara Wallis SOCAL POWER OUTAGE: Power is slowly coming on in Orange County. Our chopper above Mission Viejo right now twitpic.com/6i479e 1 hour ago CBS8 CBS 8 San Diego News LATEST FROM @SDGE: "Good news: we have restored power to 18,000 customers in Orange County." #sdoutage 1 hour ago SDGE SDG&E Good news: we have restored power to 18,000 customers in Orange County. Check back for more restoration updates. #sdoutage 1 hour ago "I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me" Phillipians 4:13 "I shall call upon the name of the Lord who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from mine enemies" Psalm 18:2-4 "In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God." Psalm 62:6-8 "He must become greater; I must become less.” John 3:30 |
| Doomamatrix
User ID: 1540903 United States09/09/2011 01:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SOMEONE FROM CALIFORNIA....please answer... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1055324 How is another country (mexico) on the same grid as the US? Are people from Mexico paying their electric bill to the same company that supplies electric to california and Arizona? I dont get it and never heard of this. No offense but we probably pay there power bill! Why not? We, the tax paying American CITIZEN pay for everything else for those SOB's, why not their electric? Obamacare: Never has so much been taken away from so many for so few. |
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