California Massive Power Ouage Includes Arizona and Mexico

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A major power outage knocked out electricity to more than 2 million people in California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, bringing San Diego and Tijuana to a standstill and leaving people sweltering in the late-summer heat in the surrounding desert.
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Two nuclear reactors were offline after losing electricity, but officials said there was no danger to the public or workers. FBI officials ruled out terrorism while power plant authorities struggled to find the cause of the outage that started shortly before 4 p.m. PDT.
San Diego bore the brunt of the blackout; most of the nation's eighth-largest city was darkened. All outgoing flights from San Diego's Lindbergh Field were grounded and police stations were using generators to accept emergency calls across the area.
The trolley system that shuttles thousands of commuters every day was shut down and freeways were clogged at rush hour. Trains were stopped in Los Angeles, an Amtrak spokesman said, because there was no power to run the lights, gates, bells and traffic control signals.
Police directed traffic at intersections where signals stopped working.
In Tijuana, people wandered out of their hot homes into the street to cool off while restaurants scrambled for ice to save perishable food.
The outage extended from southern parts of Orange County to San Diego to Yuma, Arizona. It also affected cities south of the border across much of the state of northern Baja. Border officials said crossings into California are open.
"It feels like you're in an oven and you can't escape," said Rosa Maria Gonzales, a spokeswoman with the Imperial Irrigation District in California's sizzling eastern desert. She said it was about 115 degrees when the power went out for about 150,000 of its customers.
In San Diego, Blake Albert Jordan, 20, saw a trolley come to a screeching halt as he neared the platform. Dozens of passengers emptied onto the tracks when the doors opened.
Jordan said he called about 20 friends and family to pick him up in San Diego's Mission Valley, where he was visiting a friend, to his home in suburban Lemon Grove. None offered to venture on the roads.
A transmitter line between Arizona and California was severed, said Mike Niggli, chief operating officer ofSan Diego Gas & Electric Co., causing the outage. The extreme heat in some areas also may have caused some problems with the lines.

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[monkeysbaja]

I live in the baja peninsula ensenada and the power was out till 8pm, what th #$%^& does this mean we all suck off the same electrical power supply ??? kind suucks to know that . and its not a big deal to be without lectricity but when you have millions of people trying to buy gas, food, water in the dark it really sucks and it is scary dumb asses ...I understand mexico having this problems but THE USA??? CALIFORNIA RICHEST STATE ???THE SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR PLANT WITHOUT ELECTRICITY ??

[MrHurricaneTracker]

@monkeysbaja sounds like they are going quite slow but its understandable if you try to bring up the power plants to fast they can overload it and will be a longer wait.

[MrHurricaneTracker]

keep it comming guys i wana know who is comming back up

[skywriter1962]

I live in N. Arizona, and APS is still up

[MrHurricaneTracker]

@skywriter1962 I think it was only a few in Arizona but millions are still out in California

[gato123452]

@kkamalanii mot of Californians are hardly going to support Obama, so far nobody i know likes him now.

[kkamalanii]

@ColdBlooded2232 Well, better him then us!! We are American's and let's face it! obama bin laden is one of Alqueda brothers..will that be consider racist? or consider terrorist from the Tea Party? either way! I don't like obama I think he is America # 1 terrorist! one one last thing! WHAT THIS FUCKER HAVE TO SAY ABOUT JOBS? THERE IS SO MANY ILLEGALS MEXICAN'S IN YOUR STATE THAT OBAMA USE YOU AND ABUSE YOU!! SO AGAIN BETTER OBAMA THEN US! I KNOW I WILL NOT MISS THE MOTHER FUCKER TRAITOR!

[kkamalanii]

One, more thing California is so fuck up! so many illegal alliens from mexicaca and the rest of the world. that resident from that state are sick and tired to support so much illegal fucking aliens.. the state is going to hell and you people there still support obamafiasco and ilegals so why all the complains? you are so liberats! you work pay taxes and your governor is so stupid and you allowing him to use you and abuse you? make no mistake here in paradise Hawaii we are fuck up 2!VOTEAMERICAN!

[kkamalanii]

@monkeysbaja Well, why not mexicans suck everything else I will not be surprise if mexican's have suck the electricity from USA! now my question is how the hell can you life in that country? is so disgusting are you mexican? or from USA? are you trying to invated that stinky country?

[PatriotRadioMilitia]

#1 why is our power connected at all to mexico , #2 with the border black out what came in the back door when the lights were out ?

[nuggermyme]

ty

[ColdBlooded2232]

Bull shit dude its Al-qaeda they want to kill Barrack Obama We are all going to die

the dont want Obama to give the speech because he is going to get killed