Wow, power outage in Los Angeles

clevfan · 09-12-2005, 08:28 PM

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A large portion of Los Angeles was blacked out Monday when electrical power was lost.

The power got knocked out shortly before 1 p.m. PT after two power surges.

Traffic lights throughout downtown and the San Fernando Valley were not working, causing major traffic problems, according to video from helicopter news crews.

Downtown highrises also were darkened.

The city's department of water and power said it was investigating the cause and extent of the outage.

clevfan · 09-12-2005, 08:31 PM

cnn covering it right now

clevfan · 09-12-2005, 08:32 PM

Actually all the cable news channels are covering it, seems to be a BIG power outage

ParanoidAndroid · 09-12-2005, 08:33 PM

Chaos has basically broken out in my office - all our computer servers are down and that's never a good thing [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

clevfan · 09-12-2005, 08:41 PM

if you aren't near a tv, you can watch live here: http://kcal9.com/topstories/topstori...255162353.html

count zero · 09-12-2005, 08:46 PM

Don't bother if you don't use Internet Explorer or Netscape.

clevfan · 09-12-2005, 08:49 PM

apparently workers for the city power company accidently cut a line

ParanoidAndroid · 09-12-2005, 08:49 PM

That not true at all - Im watching the feed with IE.

thanx for the link clev

count zero · 09-12-2005, 09:01 PM

Read it again, PA.

Buck Swope · 09-12-2005, 09:03 PM

anyone know if newegg is a LA-based company?

need to buy some "goods" but their site is down

clevfan · 09-12-2005, 09:04 PM

Newegg: 132 South 6th Avenue La Puente, CA 91746

ParanoidAndroid · 09-12-2005, 09:06 PM

Count - I'm a moron! sorry about that [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img]

Buck Swope · 09-12-2005, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by: clevfan
Newegg: 132 South 6th Avenue La Puente, CA 91746

Blue, you're my boy!

ParanoidAndroid · 09-12-2005, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by: clevfan
apparently workers for the city power company accidently cut a line

Yup - thats what the official word out of DWP (power co) here is. Cable was cut in the West LA area and brought down all DWP customers.

Talk about a candidate for employee of the year [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

gw · 09-13-2005, 04:48 AM

Thank God the sanitation facility for the county is a gravity system.

vega007 · 09-13-2005, 05:14 AM

I was not in Los Angeles today.