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2011 Southern California Blackout

Discussion in 'Southern California' started by derekabraham, Sep 8, 2011.

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  1. Sep 9, 2011 at 12:54 PM
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    I am a bit confused, is the blackout related to California gun laws and politics, or do you complete all paragraphs with that sentence? :confused:
     
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  2. Sep 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM
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    Fucking Arizonaians! Had to be them that caused this whole thing!

    “This was not a deliberate act. The employee was just switching out a piece of equipment that was problematic,” said Daniel Froetscher, a vice president at Arizona Public Service Co.

    He was replacing a bad monitoring station and fucked everything up! What a dumbass! I sure hope he got fired for this one!:eek::rolleyes:
     
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  3. Sep 9, 2011 at 2:01 PM
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    no i was merely replying to this


     
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  4. Sep 9, 2011 at 2:47 PM
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    And let's not forget about global warming..:D
     
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  5. Sep 9, 2011 at 2:48 PM
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  6. Sep 9, 2011 at 4:43 PM
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    I'd hate to be that guy right now...especially if they leaked his name...there were quite a few people upset about missing the first game of the season...
     
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  7. Sep 9, 2011 at 4:49 PM
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    Tell thanks your power company, and the people (tree huggers) that said no to putting more power lines over the last couple of years!!
     
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  8. Sep 9, 2011 at 4:51 PM
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    And it had nothing to do AZ
     
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  9. Sep 9, 2011 at 4:58 PM
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    Fucking hippies.
     
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  10. Sep 9, 2011 at 5:31 PM
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    X2. My father is an electrical engineer and he is one of the people tiring to fix the problem.

    They try to put the blame on one person and it doesn't work
     
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  11. Sep 10, 2011 at 1:53 AM
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    Or maybe it was the equipment they were planning on switching on the powerlink friday and to avoid bad press on a project that has already seen soo much they blamed some guy in Arizona...
     
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  12. Sep 10, 2011 at 7:41 AM
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    It is impossible for one guy too do it. There are way to many safety devices and protocols.

    Media sucks and not telling the whole story.


    http://www.caiso.com/Documents/CaliforniaGridOperatorLaunchesJointTaskForceToInvestigateMajorPowerOutage.pdf
     
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  13. Sep 10, 2011 at 10:07 AM
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    What I wanna know is why the fuck is Mexico on our grid ??....:notsure:
     
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  14. Sep 10, 2011 at 10:24 AM
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    AZ!!!
     
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  15. Sep 10, 2011 at 1:07 PM
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    Did you know Mexico provides power to US ???

    Ever go out past Ocotillo (on I-8) and perhaps along Hwy. 98, towards Calexico... and see those huge power lines?

    They go north from the new power plant we had built in Mexico (near Signal Mountain, west of Mexicali) to provide more power to us...

    You see, a power plant can be built just across the border, in Mexico... at a fraction of the time and expense it takes to build one in the U.S.... You know why?

    How about rediculous regulations dumped on top of already safe and clean technology, and they still need to appease the libs... who will only be happy when blackouts are a normal thing and America sinks into being a second or third class economy (that they are hard working at making us).

    Mexico also produces clean geo-thermal energy from the Cerro Prieto field, south of Mexicali... But, like wind or solar, it can only provide a fraction of the people's needs.

    As we can see, without electricity our way of living is severly handicapped.
     
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  16. Sep 10, 2011 at 1:56 PM
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    Well said
     
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