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<p>Our power came back on at 10:30 pm (PST on Sept. 8th). A crazy day all around but very grateful for electricity!</p>
<p>With all due respect, it’s hard for anyone here in PEPCO land (the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC) to be impressed by a power outage that lasts less than a day. </p>
<p>This happens to us routinely for no discernible reason – and it often lasts way longer than what happened in San Diego.</p>
<p>I’m glad your power is back on in San Diego…no fun being without power. Thank goodness the duration was short…and you happen to live in a climate where opening the windows year round is possible…no need for heat or AC.</p>
<p>That was a wide spread outage!!</p>
<p>Back on at 4 am for us. I am one of those drive til you’re on fumes people. This was a good reminder not to do that. Fortunately, yesterday was not one of those “on fumes” days for me. </p>
<p>Neighborhood kids had a great time playing flashlight tag all evening under a gorgeous bright moon.</p>
<p>Gosh, out here in rural America, a thunderstorm can take out the power, and if there are widespread outages, 4-6 hours without power are not all that uncommon. Everybody has candles and knows not to open the refrigerator. What’s the big deal?</p>
<p>Sorry if I implied it was a big deal… around here it was on the local news, and a least one college was evacuated, so I was curious about how that was going.</p>
<p>I suppose it’s only fair to poke fun.I know many Californians deal about the east coast response to their little earthquake (smile).</p>
<p>BTW, thunderstorms get my kids REALLY excited!</p>
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<p>D1 goes to SDSU. SHe had planned to take the train home (Orange County) for the weekend. Usually she takes the trolley to the train, but her roommate offered to drive her. They planned to do a little shopping at Nordstrom before dropping her off. They left right before the blackout and go caught in a huge traffic jam downtown. Train left 20 minutes late and arrived up here an hour late because it had to do all the “Coaster”/Metrolink stops too. She was no worse for wear, but the roommate had a complete panic attack in the traffic jam and almost ran out of gas because all the stations were closed. Which college was evacuated? I know SDSU is closed today.</p>
<p>Hmmm… I thought it was SDSU . That’s why I posted. </p>
<p>"On Thursday Classes at San Diego State University have been canceled for Friday because of a power outage that has left up to 5 million people without electricity in Southern California, Arizona and Mexico.</p>
<p>The university’s web site said Thursday that students living in dormitories are being given food, water and other supplies as efforts are under way to restore power throughout the region.</p>
<p>The story was the same at all the other major colleges and universities around the region. Cal State San Marcos, UCSD, the University of San Diego and other schools would be closed Friday as well.</p>
<p>SDSU’s football team managed to fly out of San Diego International Airport, however. All outbound flights had been initially grounded. The team was en route to New York where they play Army on Saturday."</p>
<p>Source: School’s Out for Most on Friday | NBC San Diego"
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<p>So much for my reporting! Make they said it was closed… My bad!</p>
<p>Lights on at 2 am for us. </p>
<p>Having lived through Hurricane Ike in humid Houston, a 12 hour power outage in San Diego is a piece of cake.</p>
<p>It was good to see exactly which of your emergency preparation need tweaking. One flashlight didn’t work (threw it out in frustration). Need a new lantern battery. Need to keep an old style phone (one without a wireless receiver) handy (even through the electricity goes out, the landline often continues to work). Need a plug that allows a handcrank radio to charge a cell phone. Reading a book using a headlamp works great.</p>
<p>We listened to oldies on the radio and popped popcorn, the old fashioned way. Checked on all the old people in the neighborhood.</p>
<p>But I did miss the season finale of Burn Notice. :(</p>
<p>Hmm - Irene knocked us out for 5 days. Snow also knocks us out quite often.</p>
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<p>As yesterday abundantly demonstrated, a widespread power outage in the middle of the afternoon in a metropolitan area of about three million people is indeed a very big deal. </p>
<p>It’s a big deal because all the schools and businesses suddenly close at the same time and everybody is told to go home. Parents are rushing to get to the closed schools to pick up their kids at the same time that a hundreds of thousands of sent-home workers are suddenly pushed out onto the streets. To top it off all the traffic lights are out, creating huge traffic bottlenecks at intersections. Plus you have people trapped on the trolley and stuck in elevators. </p>
<p>The result of all this? My normal 12 minute commute home took over two hours last night - two hours of creeping along, moving one car length at a time and then stopping again. In some places traffic was jammed so tight that people abandoned their cars and began walking home. Others were stuck in traffic for so long that they ran low on fuel, and all the gas stations were of course not operating. All of this in the middle of a heat wave. However, when I finally got home I too already had candles and flashlights handy and knew not to open the refrigerator. That part was not a big deal here either.</p>
<p>I’m sure the traffic disruption was far less out in rural areas.</p>
<p>It was so widespread (4 million customers in So. Cal., Mexico, and Az.)-I think that’s what made it unusual-but SDG&E did a great job of getting everyone’s power back quickly. Certainly nothing compared to many other major events like hurricanes and floods-just highly unusual.</p>
<p>Our crazy day had less to do with the outage and more to do with my son’s diabetes and a small miracle that occured for his benefit.</p>
<p>I think our “rural America” friend from doesn’t understand how places with a population of more than 10 people and their dogs operate. No offense - but having the entire southwestern coastal and desert region’s electricity go out for an entire day, affecting several million people, is far more damaging, especially economically, than shutting off your little barnyard.</p>
<p>I heard that the economic impact was upwards of 100 million-whew!</p>