Power Outage San Diego

bhunter · #1 09-09-2011, 05:28 AM

Just as I was about to watch Obama's speech the power went out in San Diego. It just came back on after about 12 hours. According to the SDGE spokesman it was an "employee triggered event." I could think of better words to describe the mishap. Aproximately 1.6 million people without power. Oh, this also occurred at 3:45PM which is our beginning of rush hour here in SD. I had plenty of food and drink, but my small generator ran out of gas at 10:30PM. I'm wondering if some of Merrylander's Constipated energy employees transferred here. People were stranded without gasoline and without ATMs. I thought it was amazing just fragile our power grid actually is. I've known about the problem for years, but no one wants to fix it. Anyway, I'm back online and have my air filtration working again.

merrylander · #2 09-09-2011, 07:10 AM

Well y'all insist that power generation be in private hands, in the 13 years I lived just outside Ottawa there was exactly one power failure. A transformer as big as the average bedroom blew out, power was back in under 12 hours. The power company? provincially owned Ontario Hydro.

Bigerik · #3 09-09-2011, 10:54 AM

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Well y'all insist that power generation be in private hands, in the 13 years I lived just outside Ottawa there was exactly one power failure. A transformer as big as the average bedroom blew out, power was back in under 12 hours. The power company? provincially owned Ontario Hydro.

Another thing I have lived through on both sides of the border, and the Canadian way just plain works better.

merrylander · #4 09-09-2011, 11:08 AM

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Another thing I have lived through on both sides of the border, and the Canadian way just plain works better.

And cheaper, they read my meter only every second month as it was not worth the cost of reading it monthly.

Here with Baltimore Gas & Ehrlich that 72% raise in rates was unconscionable.

piece-itpete · #5 09-09-2011, 11:31 AM

Government ownership didn't work out very well at Chernobyl

Pete

d-ray657 · #6 09-09-2011, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by bhunter

Just as I was about to watch Obama's speech the power went out in San Diego. It just came back on after about 12 hours. According to the SDGE spokesman it was an "employee triggered event." I could think of better words to describe the mishap. Aproximately 1.6 million people without power. Oh, this also occurred at 3:45PM which is our beginning of rush hour here in SD. I had plenty of food and drink, but my small generator ran out of gas at 10:30PM. I'm wondering if some of Merrylander's Constipated energy employees transferred here. People were stranded without gasoline and without ATMs. I thought it was amazing just fragile our power grid actually is. I've known about the problem for years, but no one wants to fix it. Anyway, I'm back online and have my air filtration working again.

Ah, the pitfalls of living in paradise.

Regards,

D-Ray

merrylander · #7 09-09-2011, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Government ownership didn't work out very well at Chernobyl

Pete

Because that was not a power plant, it was for making bombs. So show me an instance where private industry has done anything here about keeping the lights on 24/7.

bhunter · #8 09-09-2011, 08:29 PM

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Ah, the pitfalls of living in paradise.

Regards,

D-Ray

Yeah, there was no looting, no uptick in crime, no real problems. In fact, lots of neighborhoods had black out block parties. I kind of like the ring to that. The store shelves were fairly empty today, but there was plenty of beer. Overall the Office of Emergency Services applauded the people's behavior here. We're expecting the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant to be back online tomorrow or Sunday.

Charles · #9 09-09-2011, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by bhunter

Yeah, there was no looting, no uptick in crime, no real problems. In fact, lots of neighborhoods had black out block parties. I kind of like the ring to that. The store shelves were fairly empty today, but there was plenty of beer. Overall the Office of Emergency Services applauded the people's behavior here. We're expecting the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant to be back online tomorrow or Sunday.

So long as you didn't run out of beer!!!

Now I've noticed that 'round here in Bugtussell, 99% of the time the power goes out is when you don't pay your utility bill.

Just sayin',

Chas