LOS ANGELES (Sept. 12) - 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. 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.


09/12/05 16:17 EDT

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Hopefully all Orgers who live in the LA area are safe and not trapped in elevators and whatnot. I lived through the 2003 Blackout that hit the northeast and it is no fun! We had no electricty, gas, or water for more than 2 days.

the LA branch of where i work still has all its power out...has anyone heard from Muse?

I was going to post this....yesterday an American trader said L.A was next for a terrorist attack...they say it's not related, but too much of a damn couincidence. can't spell
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i'm not seeing anything in the news about this. weird.

Anxiety said:

go to CNN


i think they said power is returning....so that's good.

I live in the Hollywood area & power was out at my house for about 30 minutes.However my neighbor on the next street over still has his power out.It seems like the areas surrounding downtown LA was affected:Hollywood, burbank, Koreatown, & parts of the valley are out.Traffic lights are out so it's creating major traffic jams at the moment.Im staying put & watching the news.

Imagine being trapped in an elevator with people and a steadily decreasing fresh air supply. That gives me the willies. There were tons of reports of that here during the 2003 Blackout. Its amazing how vulnerable we all are without electricity.

Another ploy to take away the focus off of Katrina and it's many errors. I wouldn't put it past Bush to have pulled the plug on L.A. himself.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/U...index.html

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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I was thinking the same thing. Its a shame that we have to have such distrust for our governemt, but we have to. If we dont, they will be even more ready to rape and steal and lie to us.

Our lights went out for no more than 30 seconds....
Hope everyones ok

amorbella said:

Im glad youre ok!

dreamfactory313 said:

no harm here, just kinda weird...wasnt expected, and I couldnt find any info on the radio

amorbella said:

The weird thing about the 2003 Blackout was that it was an hour or so before I even knew that their was a blackout. I just figured that the power was out in my apartment complex because there had been roaming power outages that summer, u know? So it took a little investigating to actually learn what was going on. It was one of the most awful 2 days ever. I had to bathe with cold bottled water.

Anxiety said:

Right here... I am outside the city... all is well....this is the first I have heard of it. Sounds as if it was rather momentary? Likely we overwhelmed the grid somehow. Although it is only 78 or so here today.

during the 2003 blackout, i was in the elevator when the light started flickering. It was a bit packed and someone was in a wheel chair, she was kinda praying and looked a bit scared, I was thinking what's her problem...we'll be out soon. Then I started to worry a bit, because I just stole some stuff from my job and I had them in a big bag..I didn't want my ass to get caught.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

glad you're doing ok

They're calling it a DWP (opposed to Edison customers) "power disruption".
Didn't notice anything here at the office which is located just south of downtown L.A.

Haven't been out in the street yet.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

They said a DWP worker cut the wrong wire and caused all this. umhmm.

Did not have any power loss here.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Wow. It was 90 here in Detroit today.

jseven said:

The DWP was probably GWB.....


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My internet connection however keeps going on and off and I think where they are located is being affected and that is why I keep losing my connection.
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unlucky7 said:

jseven said:

One wire? RIGHT! I don't even think all those areas are on the same grid.

dreamfactory313 said:

I'm sayin'.... Just a screw up somewhere!

theAudience said:

My music is still pumpin through the joint! Thanks for the tunes and the call....

"Just on FOX they said the guy cut the wrong line then tried to hook it up again to the wrong line which caused a huge power surge and tripped off generators all throughout the system, causing 50% of customers to lose power...."

got this from a site....not a news site....if that's true...I feel sorry for the guy.

unlucky7 said:

Now that makes sense... Human error... could be worse...he could be a surgeon...oops!

unlucky7 said:

Dayum. Somebody is about to be soooo fired.