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| Major Portion of Los Angeles Loses Power | ||
| 2005-09-12 | ||
| A large portion of Los Angeles was hit with a blackout Monday afternoon. The city was investigating the cause and extent of the outage. But Sgt. Catherine Plows, a police spokeswoman, said terrorism was not suspected. Electrical power was knocked out shortly before 1 p.m. after two power surges, and traffic was snarled at intersections throughout the city when stop lights went dark. The lights also went out at downtown high- rises. The Police Department went on "full tactical alert," meaning no officers were allowed to leave duty.
The blackout came a day after ABC aired a videotape of a purported al- Qaida member making terrorist threats against Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia, on the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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| Posted by:Ebbavitle Phager2036 |
| #15 Shipman---you took the Greyhound line from me. Its mine, I tell ya...all mine. I was just a day late and a dollar short.... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-09-12 21:06 |
| #14 Get off your asses and get 5000 new transformers down here right now! Use the federal transporter or use Greyhound and leave the driveling to us. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-12 19:42 |
| #13 Bob Mulholland - CA Donk Asshole - was on Fox blaming Schwarzenegger....said it was just like N.O. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-12 19:37 |
| #12 Media and Democrats blaming Bush in 5, 4, 3, ... |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-09-12 19:25 |
| #11 Did they let the Blue Smoke out? If you let the Blue Smoke out of anything electrical it won't work anymore. That's what happened to my refrigerator. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-09-12 19:14 |
| #10 Just look for a guy with a new perm. BigEd gets comment of the day! |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-09-12 19:02 |
| #9 Sgt. Catherine Plows Rural free love. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-12 18:50 |
| #8 Sorry I plugged in this Persacon I found. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-09-12 18:29 |
| #7 com - its all my fault. I was talking to them today. When I talked to LAX they lost their planes. I should not talk to LA anything. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-09-12 17:52 |
| #6 Then he reconnected to the wrong point, causing surges up to roll up the valley, which caused the affected substations to trip out - an automatic safety procedure. So now, they're correcting the screwup and resetting the various substations. Truly, there's nothing to see here. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-09-12 17:36 |
| #5 Villaregosa office reports wire "accidentally" cut. Just look for a guy with a new perm. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-09-12 17:31 |
| #4 "Stuck elevators are not a problem. Please remain calm." -LADWP Spokesman, not HAL the computer. Long Beach and Oreange count under a different grid (Edison). No failure here. Power slowly returning... Nothing really horrid. Villaregosa (LA Mayor) seems relieved , Gov. Terminator aware, made no statement though... KFI goofballs making jokes. Dr. Laura pre-empted... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-09-12 17:27 |
| #3 I read on Drudge that the dept. of water and power (now there is a BAD mix) cut a major line and the surges shutdown most of the grid. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-09-12 16:58 |
| #2 "You're all DOOMED!!! Save yourselves !!!" |
| Posted by: Ray Nagin 2005-09-12 16:56 |
| #1 I was wondering where Governor Blanco was today. |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-09-12 16:48 |