Monsoon storm knocks out Arizona power grid in116 degree heat, lots of damage

they're opening up some of the public schools as coooling centers, postponing in the process the kids' school year beginnings. Walmart is down, no traffic lights, happy Labour Day holiday. These things happen but from the news reports, somebody higher up seems to be indicating weaknesses in the nation's power grid, without providing more details.

I am staying this week in a hotel in north Bullhead City and this is not bs. Debris has been covering the AZ Highway 95 which runs north to south through this whole area, the Safeway store is the only place open and I drove down there to as why. Unlike walmart and apparently other stores, they had reserve cooled storage facilities to place their perishables, and could open quickly after power was stored in that area of town. Needless to say, the place is packed with customers. Around 4 A.M. this morning, power was turned off and on several times, eventually remaining on after they got the internet going. People were opening their oom windows or leaving their doors open while they tried to sleep. From on scene, this is not bs at all.

Im in AZ and Im amazed at the people who have zero plan or backup. Crazy!

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Where in AZ?

I'm in the Phoenix area and we didn't lose power.

116deg aint shit in AZ. i was there maybe 2008, it was 116, no problem. i remember they had water misters at the pool, above your heads, circling pool

Be careful of flash floods, OP! They're deadly.

Obviously, major shit is up with the power grid.

Yea, it's fueling California lol

109 in Phoenix today. Not a cloud in sight.

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as of this hour - 9 p.m. on 9th September in Arizona - you will see a tropical storm/hurricane off the tip of Baja about 1200 miles to the south of here. What happens is that these storms will do one of three things - they will go northwest into cold Pacific waters and break up without causing damage to the mainland anywhere. Two, they will strike around Manzanillo and move north, soaking Texas. Or three, they will make their way part of the way of the east side of Baja, losing their hurricane eye but throwing monsoon storms up into Arizona. Depending upon where and how the tropical storm/hurricane breaks up, the monsoons willgenerally strike across Nogales towards the Phoenix area, or slither up western Arizona towards Mohave County.

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doesn't look like a threat to AZ to me

um thats nevada

it sure aint metro phoenix or tucson.

Only retards and white trash live in Bullhead City.

Wrong state OP. 116 in Sacramento. Rolling blackouts for CA also.

Currently 70,000 customers out of power, mainly Santa Clara county.

here in BHC for Labour Day holiday, temp was 113 as I drove somewhere a few hours ago. Internet sources put it at 114 to 116. Agree that this one bypassed Phoenix but apparently the entire state and surrounding states are being accessed for grid power.

As a former resident of an area that got monsooned to pieces every year (southern Mojave, commiefornia) you have my sympathies . The highway I used to get to and from work was normally an 80MPH drive but in rainy season I had to be careful not to outdrive what I could actually see because it would sometimes take out sections of the road 30ft long and up to 10-12ft deep. Y'all be careful.

Bullhead City was close to 116 today - roasty!

MEC normally purchases around 30 megawatt hours per day from their bulk grid source, they have a bunch of solar but absolutely no storage even though they border the Colorado river and its many hydro plants. The lack of redundancies in connection to the bulk grid is ridiculous and they're planning to add more solar with BATTERIES in the next couple years. The reservoirs behind the dams could act as batteries, but regulations and incompetent/corrupt leadership at MEC along with Agenda 2030s demand to destroy the river infrastructure to depopulate the region are all acting against common sense solutions.

MEC hasn't even fixed hardly any of their down lines, the majority of power came back on when their bulk supplier reconnected their damaged line. The talk of hurricane force winds is a bs excuse, there is no evidence of winds over 60MPH and these are not uncommon in this area. They say they're replacing the downed poles, they should be putting the new lines underground if they can't withstand those winds.

I live right in the middle of the destruction and that storm wasn't anything special, it was the third one like it this summer and nowhere near as powerful as another just a month or so ago that ripped the shingles off half the roofs on my street.

Lmfao....I hope they're able to recharge their electric cars...

Oh boy...

Bullhead/Mohave Valley area, either 50, 60 or 110 down poles depending on your source, I personally saw 20 in one section and a few here and there adding up to maybe 15 more.

That's strange to me. I lived in Arizona for ten years and remember the haboobs and monsoons, but the power never went out because in Arizona all power is ran underground. I live in Texas now and they have telephone poles and transformers everywhere, that's why that winter storm was so bad. Arizona has better infrastructure, or Phoenix did anyway.

Yeah and these morons are replacing the poles instead of digging trenches to bury them...this wasn't even the worst storm this summer. And this electric coop, they're nonprofit and give money to charities rather than upgrading their equipment, it's an absolute clown show.

Damn....like gasoline on a fire.

fuckers ... power tripping mutha fukers

yeah I've had some colourful conversations with some long-term residents here. The things the media will never tell you. The police chief was recently forced to retire 30 days short of his 20-year pension, while the PD's head of narcotics enforcement was taken to hospital supposedly due to covid and pronounced dead a couple days later. The backstory is much more colourful, involving the Feds. They need a 2nd bridge across the Colorado River and announced its beginning - several years ago. Not a shovel has moved, while it's tied up in paperwork. Don't expect these fine officials to be innovative, caring, or even competent.

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