Throughout downtown L.A. to San Fernando Valley. Just reported on CNN. CNN’s own office confirms it’s lost power. Officials say they don’t know why so much of L.A. has lost power.
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Is this the terrorist attack promised yesterday?
the “terrorist attack” will be the first place to point fingers…but it’ll probably just end up being something weather related that’s taxing the network.
How’s the weather down South? We’re cooler than average in the Silly Con Valley, which means it’s quite pleasant… 🙂
it is windy and chilly down San Diego way today. A little hint of fall in the air.
I wonder, Aloha
thank heavens no outages here, what about you…
Are the Los Angeles TV stations on the air?
— some report very brief outage — the CNN studio in L.A. and Cedar Sinai Hospital (which is fortunate)
Wolfie asked the L.A. reporter about the L.A. TV stations, and she can’t see them.
Sounds like the worst problem right now is the huge traffic mess.
As can be expected, lots of helicopter pics of traffic snarls.
Veeeery informative!
They did say, however, that it was not a terrorism attack. And the weather is quite mild, as it has been for a number of days, nearly a week, in fact.
from space.com
Solar flares send radiation to Earth in about 8 minutes. Hours later, clouds of charged particles can engulf the planet. If the magnetic field of a storm is oriented opposite to our planet’s protective magnetic field, gaps are created and radiation leaks to the planet’s surface, potentially threatening astronauts aboard the International Space Station, sometimes shorting out satellites, and even causing terrestrial power grids to trip.
That was my first reaction, too, when I’d read only Susan’s story and not the comments.
Link — no cause identified yet. Power surges first, then power out.
To answer your email susan, yes all local tv stations are on currently, i think they have back up generators.
channel 7 (ABC) reports two receiving stations are down, this reminds me of the New York power outage a few years ago….btw it’s not a very hot day here so I don’t think it is overload from too much use.
Can I take this chance to remind everyone to prepare for emergencies and lots of info can be found on Village Blue, linked below.
I believe that Mike Brown is available if any assistance is needed.
You are so funny!
Beautiful.
Btw, in the late-1970s, I worked on the 48th floor of one of the ARCO tower in downtown L.A. (that’s where Roy Scheider gets stabbed in Marathon Man) … glad I’m not there today 🙂
We are glad too!
It feels like this country is just falling apart from lack of maintenance…
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Back-up generators according to procedures.
Had a little flickering op power at :15 past the hour.
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Outages are spotty, now there is a fire somewhere, maybe a smokestack…..breaking, power coming back on in some areas.
Now Wolfie just lost his CNN reporter in L.A.
(This is mean, but I’m loving this story … I am so strung out from all the news crises that it’s kind of fun to just watch video of traffic jams. Wish there’d be a white Bronco about now … I could handle watching that.)
Yeah it is kind of a relief seeing something different.
Just heard that a dwp worker cut a cable accidentally to cause this outage.
Drudge says:
‘Dept of water and power snapped a power line’; grid jolted…
The outages seem to span an enormous georgraphic area, all the way from the San Fernando Valley in the north to the Port of Los Angeles in the South.
Here in Long Beach, however, nothing happened.
We never lost power in my part of Inland Empire either.
I heard about the power outage here. 🙂
Recall Ahnuld!
Paging Grey Davis. Paging Grey Davis. Please return to the Governors Mansion.
Carefull. Don’t do the GOP’s work for them. You know they are already preparing talking points about how the Dems are will be quick to blame Arnold for this, but won’t blame Blanco for NOLA…
Democrats had proposed putting a bill to shore up the electrical grid on the fast track and the GOP insisted on keeping it as part of a larger energy bill which just passed. The several months of delay could have made the difference in Los Angeles.
CNN has the story in such a screwed up tense that I can’t tell whether power has been restored or if no further power is being lost.
Anyone know?
I am in socal….reports here that power is coming back slowing..cable was cut…elevators appear to drop to the ground floors ‘here’ in power outage, according to one report I heard…
Lou Ripouli, a fire chief from the LA Harbor Area–who I’ve interviewed for stories before–has been on Channel 7 for a few minutes now. He explained that it was single cable that was cut, and resulted in the loss of power along a single artery running from the Harbor Area up through the Valley. He said that most of the modern buildings with automatic backup on their elevators had functioned well, and brought their passangers down to the ground floor.
Also that the Fire Department was following a protocol to get units out into the field and helicopters into the sky to maximize coverage in response to the appearance of any fires. He said they have been in a continuous learning mode since 9/11, and what they were doing was based on that. I plan to see if I can interview him myself in the next 24 hours for Random Lengths
Why is so much of the city dependent on ONE single cable?
It was at a power distribution center and one of serveral arteries for power to receiving stations, from what I gather.
The most unkindest cut of all.
“Fox Immediately Links LA Power Outage to Terror
Today (September 12, 2005), at 4:16 p.m. ET., after the bells and whistles of a FOX NEWS ALERT, John Gibson broke the news about a large power outage in Los Angeles. CNN and MSNBC hadn’t even begun covering the story when, seconds later, Gibson went to Bret Baier at the Pentagon with this segue: “Meanwhile, a new terror tape has been released with new threats for the US and Australia. A warning from a masked man that Los Angeles, Los Angeles, where the power is out right now, and Melbourne, Australia, are next on the hit list.”
During Baier’s report, Fox aired video clips from the latest Al Qaeda tape interwoven with video from the rubble of the World Trade Center and that famous H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D sign on the hillside in Southern California.
Comment: I would expect Fox to eventually imply that there might be a link between the outage and Al Qaeda but what was appalling today was it’s rapidity. Fox didn’t hesitate, it happened literally within seconds. It’s the Fox way of reporting “the news” – begin with worst case scenario speculation and let the facts trickle in as they may.”
Scary how they do these things.
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/09/12/fox_immediately_links_la_power_outage_to_terror.php#comments
Fox news a government operative
Enron’s comeback plan.