Power outage

[Musky]

Our Power went out about an hour ago here in San Diego and it is a very widespread outage. Most of Southern California south of Los Angeles is out all the way to Ensenada, Mexico, from the ocean into Arizona!

I had link my cell phone to my laptop to get online and see what was happening!

Anybody else on here affected?

[trottigy]

Nothing in Veags.

[Musky]

Nothing in Veags.

Not even a spell-checker!

[ArtisteBleue]

Nothing in northern California, either.

[leannsmarie]

The news is saying you may have to wait till tomorrow to get your power back. They still do not know the cause.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/california-power-out-till-friday.html

[trottigy]

Nothing in Veags.

Not even a spell-checker!

Tough day - wow!

[ArtisteBleue]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — More than 2 million people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border were left without power Thursday after a major outage that extended from Arizona to southern California, including San Diego, the eighth largest U.S. city.

Mike Niggli, chief operating officer of San Diego Gas & Electric Co. ruled out terrorism but said the cause is unclear.

"To my knowledge this is the first time we've lost an entire system," he said at a news conference.

The outage that started shortly before 4 p.m. PDT extended from southern parts of Orange County to San Diego to Yuma, Arizona. It also is affecting cities south of the border across much of the state of northern Baja.

All outgoing flights from San Diego's Lindbergh Field were grounded and police stations were using generators to accept emergency calls across San Diego County.

Charles Coleman, a spokesman from Southern California Edison, said the two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant went offline at 3:38 p.m. as they are programmed to do when there is a disturbance in the power grid, but there was no danger to the public or to workers there.

Residents in parts of eastern San Diego County and Yuma, Ariz. endured sweltering temperatures with no air conditioning.

"It's 113 degrees right now outside and 75 in my office," said Yuma city spokesman Greg Hyland, who was sitting in the dark, answering calls.

Niggli said relief was on its way, slowly. He said his 1.4 million customers may be without power until Friday.

He said the utility lost power due to a transmission failure that started at a large switching station in Arizona, where several high-voltage lines come together, although the cause has not been determined.

"I suspect the system was overwhelmed by too many outages in too many places," Niggli said.

In the desert heat of the Palm Springs area, the temperature was 111 on Thursday, with the rolling blackouts. The Eisenhower Medical Center will serve as an oasis of air conditioning since it operates on its own power source, said hospital spokeswoman Deborah Johnson.

Johnson welcomed fragile seniors and others affected by the heat to cool off in their lobby.

"All I can say is God bless air conditioning," she said.

Five hundred to 2,000 SoCal Edison customers in southern Orange County and Riverside County are currently without power and there is no estimate for when power will be restored, Coleman said.

"It's up to the Independent System Operator to determine what the cause was," he said.

In southern Orange County, the sheriff's department dispatched deputies to busy intersections because traffic lights were out, said John McDonald, a sheriff's spokesman. Outages were confirmed in San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Hills, he said.

[boodles]

My dad said he was driving home from work, stopped at a light, when the stoplight started blinking. When he got to the next light, it was out. He said the radio stations all went out, too. He made it home, as he wasn't far away and there wasn't a lot of traffic yet. My mom said they are planning to eat tuna sandwiches for dinner!

[Mrs. Musky]

I'm happy to report that the power was restored to our neighborhood in north San Diego county a little after midnight this morning (after about a 9 hour outtage).

[GrumpysWife]

Our power went out on Tuesday afternoon until 2AM but we have a generator so we were not affected. Can't miss those TV shows you know.

[futurepromise]

I heard about your power outage after my Thursday meeting. A brother in my congregation told me.

I asked him if his wife, who was not at the meeting was sick. He told me she was visiting a sister in San Diego and they had no electricity.