OMFG rolling black outs
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I just burnt my tongue
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OMFG rolling black outs
god damnit it took me an hour to get from koreatown to downtown la cuz of the freakin power outages...it just barely came back on but places are still out WTF
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ya try working for our company. were blowing up right now. i work for a web hosting company and 3495890458920438594859 of ur servers just went down.
not a good day!
they hacked the gibbison yo!
not a good day!
they hacked the gibbison yo!
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But seriously...
LOS ANGELES, California (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 went out shortly before 1 p.m., and outages were reported from downtown to the Pacific Coast and north into the San Fernando Valley, an area encompassing hundreds of thousands of residents and thousands of businesses.
Some Los Angeles neighborhoods did not lose power at all, and electricity was restored in some areas within an hour.
Los Angeles International Airport lost power, but its emergency generator kicked in promptly and no flights were affected, said Harold Johnson, an airport spokesman. UCLA Medical Center used backup generators and reported no danger to patients.
Downtown high-rises went dark, fire officials said they received reports of people stuck in elevators, and stoplights went out at intersections across the city. Neighboring cities, including Burbank and Glendale, also were affected.
The Police Department went on "full tactical alert," meaning no officers were allowed to leave work when their shifts were over.
The blackout came a day after ABC aired a videotape of a purported al Qaeda member making terrorist threats against Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia, on the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. (Full story)
Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke said federal authorities were talking to state and local counterparts about the power loss, but "there is no indication of any nexus to terror."
Heavy power usage can lead to blackouts. But the weather in Los Angeles was not unusually hot Monday, with temperatures around the low 70s when the power went out.
An official with the city Department of Water and Power said it appeared the problem began when two power receiving stations failed. That forced several larger generating stations to shut down, according to Robert Rozanski, chief administrative officer.
The receiving stations get high-voltage power from the generating stations and convert it to lower voltage so that it can be used throughout the city.
"We are doing everything we possibly can to find out the source of the problem," Rozanski said.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
But seriously...
LOS ANGELES, California (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 went out shortly before 1 p.m., and outages were reported from downtown to the Pacific Coast and north into the San Fernando Valley, an area encompassing hundreds of thousands of residents and thousands of businesses.
Some Los Angeles neighborhoods did not lose power at all, and electricity was restored in some areas within an hour.
Los Angeles International Airport lost power, but its emergency generator kicked in promptly and no flights were affected, said Harold Johnson, an airport spokesman. UCLA Medical Center used backup generators and reported no danger to patients.
Downtown high-rises went dark, fire officials said they received reports of people stuck in elevators, and stoplights went out at intersections across the city. Neighboring cities, including Burbank and Glendale, also were affected.
The Police Department went on "full tactical alert," meaning no officers were allowed to leave work when their shifts were over.
The blackout came a day after ABC aired a videotape of a purported al Qaeda member making terrorist threats against Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia, on the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. (Full story)
Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke said federal authorities were talking to state and local counterparts about the power loss, but "there is no indication of any nexus to terror."
Heavy power usage can lead to blackouts. But the weather in Los Angeles was not unusually hot Monday, with temperatures around the low 70s when the power went out.
An official with the city Department of Water and Power said it appeared the problem began when two power receiving stations failed. That forced several larger generating stations to shut down, according to Robert Rozanski, chief administrative officer.
The receiving stations get high-voltage power from the generating stations and convert it to lower voltage so that it can be used throughout the city.
"We are doing everything we possibly can to find out the source of the problem," Rozanski said.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Rep Power: 290 Large Portion of Los Angeles Loses Power
By Sharon Bernstein, Times Staff Writer
A wide-ranging power outage, set off when a cable was accidentally cut, darkened large sections of downtown Los Angeles and many parts of the San Fernando Valley shortly after noon today, authorities said.
Lee Sapaden, a spokesman for the county's Office of Emergency Management, said the massive power failure was caused after an employee "inadvertently cut a power cable" at a DWP substation in West L.A
That sucks. It's like the time I cut the power line going to my air conditioner when I was weedeating. But I guess that a cut line at a substation would take more than some electrical tape to fix it.
By Sharon Bernstein, Times Staff Writer
A wide-ranging power outage, set off when a cable was accidentally cut, darkened large sections of downtown Los Angeles and many parts of the San Fernando Valley shortly after noon today, authorities said.
Lee Sapaden, a spokesman for the county's Office of Emergency Management, said the massive power failure was caused after an employee "inadvertently cut a power cable" at a DWP substation in West L.A
That sucks. It's like the time I cut the power line going to my air conditioner when I was weedeating. But I guess that a cut line at a substation would take more than some electrical tape to fix it.
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Rep Power: 379 They said that someone switched cables and pushed too much onto a line not expecting that type of surge. No injuries, one fired employee
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I just burnt my tongue
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Rep Power: 319 who ever cut the line in hollywood sure got his *** handed to him...wow 2 million people stuck without power for 2 hours is not a good way to make a good impression on your boss...lol damn that idiot at the dwp made international news...what a smart ***
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