Did you guys catch this story? One dude killed power to 2million people? Wow he must feel very powerful, haha. WTF? So a reset caused the outage? Gimme a break!! Geeze! I have a hard time believing that one station controls Socal, Mexico and AZ? Not much fun for you folks in Cali without water that is the hardest part and of course refrigeration. Hope everyone makes out okay. Can we say test? Blessings!


[link to www.abc.net.au]

"An ill-fated procedure by an Arizona power utility employee in a small town unleashed a chain of events which brought down power in a large swath of the south-west, the Arizona utility said. A high-power line supplying electricity to southern California failed first.

Minutes later that led to a blockage at California's San Onofre nuclear energy plant, a second major source of power to the north of San Diego, which shut down, San Diego Gas and Electric said.

San Diego International Airport said it cancelled all outbound flights, traffic came to a standstill as the city's streetlights quit and about 70 people had to be rescued by the city's fire department from stalled elevators.

But police in the second largest California city, located between Los Angeles and the Mexican border, reported no major problems and hospitals successfully switched to backup power.

San Diego schools were ordered closed until Monday as utilities could not guarantee they would be able to turn on the lights in classrooms."