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News: Massive blackout in California and Baja California
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Massive blackout in California and Baja California
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A breakdown in the Rosarito thermoelectric seems to cause a widespread blackout in San Diego, Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, Rosarito and Ensenada that was presented at the edge of 15:45 pm today . According to the Tijuana Fire Director Carlos Martinez, it is assumed that the heating of thermal turbines in Rosarito, which provides electricity throughout the state and part of San Diego, was the reason for the problem. So far authorities have not given an official response from the reasons for the widespread blackout.
The Associated Press reports that 13 police stations in San Diego were without power but were able to continue operating and taking 911 calls by using generators.
SDG&E reported approximately 1.4 million customers are without power in California, Arizona and Mexico.
The Associated Press reports that 13 police stations in San Diego were without power but were able to continue operating and taking 911 calls by using generators.
SDG&E reported approximately 1.4 million customers are without power in California, Arizona and Mexico.
At a late afternoon news conference, a spokesman said that the outage started with a problem on a transmission line in Arizona. That caused a sequence of events that shut down both generators at San Onofre Nuclear Power Station . The other two main power supplies to the region, a transmission line from the north and another from the east, were also down, the spokesman said.
SDG&E said both its power supplies were compromised, though it is unclear exactly how. Lines from Arizona and from the north appeared to fail, the utility said.
“Hot days in a row like we have had create lots of power flowing. Could have had an impact,” SDG&E said in a statement on Twitter.]
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Full news: HERE
There were hours without tv, without internet, without anything
even my iPod wasn't charged at that time 
the cool thing, UABC (university) sent us home at 5pm 
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I was without power until 12 am.  The only good thing is I didn't have school today. 
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Originally posted by Attitude
I was without power until 12 am. The only good thing is I didn't have school today. |
preach it sis 
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Rosarito, Tijuana and California better stan 
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Are ya'll from San Diego?
Yeah, power didn't come on for me until about 10 last night. It was pretty cool to see the stars and moon so bright, though.
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Originally posted by ALA
Are ya'll from San Diego?
Yeah, power didn't come on for me until about 10 last night. It was pretty cool to see the stars and moon so bright, though.
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Yes, I'm from San Diego.
I went to bed and then at 12 am all my lights turned on.
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Originally posted by Porygon2z
Rosarito, Tijuana and California better stan
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I knew someone would do this 
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It's funny how power outages are such an uncommon occurrence for east/west coasters that they bring about the collapse of society.
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Originally posted by Patrick
It's funny how power outages are such an uncommon occurrence for east/west coasters that they bring about the collapse of society.
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Haha, never thought about it that way. At home this summer we had our power go out three times, once for like three days. We had to toss everything in our fridge but we lived.
It reminds me of how D.C. completely shuts down when they get an inch of snow.
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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
Haha, never thought about it that way. At home this summer we had our power go out three times, once for like three days. We had to toss everything in our fridge but we lived.
It reminds me of how D.C. completely shuts down when they get an inch of snow.
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SO MUCH TRUTH HERE. It's even worse in Richmond.
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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
Haha, never thought about it that way. At home this summer we had our power go out three times, once for like three days. We had to toss everything in our fridge but we lived.
It reminds me of how D.C. completely shuts down when they get an inch of snow.
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Yeah, I sorta just expect to be without power any time a storm of any significance rolls through.
And it is funny how areas of the country that do not typically receive snow will react to a light dusting.
But I'm sure there are certain events and weather phenomena that would catch people in my region totally off guard, so I shouldn't give anyone else a hard time.
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Originally posted by Patrick
It's funny how power outages are such an uncommon occurrence for east/west coasters that they bring about the collapse of society.
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Well, during heavy rain and lightning, the power goes out quite frequently in certain places on the West Coast. I wouldn't know about the East Coast, but when you take into consideration the reliance of mankind, as a whole, on electricity, you're bound to see why that might be a problem. A major example would be traffic lights... without those, intersections (especially major ones) become extremely dangerous.
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Originally posted by Patrick
Yeah, I sorta just expect to be without power any time a storm of any significance rolls through.
And it is funny how areas of the country that do not typically receive snow will react to a light dusting.
But I'm sure there are certain events and weather phenomena that would catch people in my region totally off guard, so I shouldn't give anyone else a hard time.
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I couldn't agree more about the snow! Lmao! It rains enough here in Sacramento, but every time it does it seems like people forget how to drive... and if it were ever to snow (which doesn't really happen except a few flakes in the very early morning during the winter) drivers here would probably be either cowering at home or clawing their eyes out while attempting to drive through the snow. In other words, it'd be entertaining... 
P.S. I spent about 6 years living where it snowed every year, sometimes even in the early spring, so I've seen both sides of the coin.
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Originally posted by ExtraChapstick
I couldn't agree more about the snow! Lmao! It rains enough here in Sacramento, but every time it does it seems like people forget how to drive... and if it were ever to snow (which doesn't really happen except a few flakes in the very early morning during the winter) drivers here would probably be either cowering at home or clawing their eyes out while attempting to drive through the snow. In other words, it'd be entertaining...
P.S. I spent about 6 years living where it snowed every year, sometimes even in the early spring, so I've seen both sides of the coin.
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I'm around snow quite a bit, and I'd probably laugh at people who never see it having panic attacks while driving, but in a way I get the paranoia. I'm not really uncomfortable driving in the snow, but I am cautious and I've still had my fair share of road slippage experiences and swerveage. I guess it makes sense that it would be sort of traumatic to people who rarely experience it.
We very rarely experience earthquakes where I live, and I know how excited we get when we have even the most minor of tremors. I actually live fairly close to a major fault line, but it's generally inactive and we never really think about the fact that we live in an area that could be prone to quakes. A few months back we had a few small tremors in the middle of the night. I feel like my Californian friends probably would have slept through them, but I was sorta wigging out.
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I was affected by this yesterday. No power for 8 hours here. 
Everything is fine now.
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Originally posted by ExtraChapstick
I couldn't agree more about the snow! Lmao! It rains enough here in Sacramento, but every time it does it seems like people forget how to drive... and if it were ever to snow (which doesn't really happen except a few flakes in the very early morning during the winter) drivers here would probably be either cowering at home or clawing their eyes out while attempting to drive through the snow. In other words, it'd be entertaining...
P.S. I spent about 6 years living where it snowed every year, sometimes even in the early spring, so I've seen both sides of the coin.
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Its like that in Vancouver too. They even cancel schools when they get half an inch of snow, buses downtown can't run cause the lines are frozen. [and yes, a Canadian city can't handle snow - it's hilarious.]
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Bitch bye! In January my city without light more than 15 hours! 
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