Power returning to US southwest after major outage

[krebs303]

Figures on one of the hottest days of the year. It was off here in Baja. looked weird last night with no lights up and down the coast. would have been a good night for star gazing.
any one else effected
Power returning to US southwest after major outage
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The lights were back on Friday morning in Arizona and steadily returning to parts of Southern California and Mexico after a major power outage that cut electricity to millions of people.

Residents sweltered without air conditioners in the heat and San Diego's freeway and airport traffic were paralyzed.

The outage was accidentally triggered Thursday afternoon when an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation in southwest Arizona, officials at Phoenix-based Arizona Public Service Co. said.

 

[krebs303]

Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission said 180,000 customers had been brought back online in Baja California. The commission said it was making progress in getting power back on in state capital Mexicali, Ensenada and Rosarito.

Blackouts hit Mexico's Northern Baja California state in the afternoon, knocking out power to hundreds of maquiladora export assembly plants in the sprawling industrial powerhouse of Tijuana, south of San Diego.

The blackouts knocked out stoplights at intersections across Tijuana, causing traffic snarl ups, and also cut power to hospitals and government offices. The border crossing at Otay Mesa was closed to all but pedestrian traffic.

what a nightmare at the border

 

[ElChingon]

Its back on at my hiding spot. Sure was quiet last night, very nice, I'm sure others were in a panic, candles and LED battery lights were the way to go. As the night went we started logging who to eat first in this crissis situation.

 

[shawnrohrbach]

Ah, yes. The night the power went out in San Diego. Fired up the chimena barbecue; roasted a pork tenderloin with mole and some mexican vegetables. Sat out on the patio at nine to dine; the moon was almost full and bathed the canyon in a soft glow. No lights on the surrounding hills, but the solar lights around the patio did their job. Invited neighbors to left and right to join us and we went through the case of beer (you know it would just get warm and skunk because the fridge was out) and listened to the news that the power was coming on in various places. Dang.