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California Blackout
By: ChipRawks Date: September 9, 2011, 3:33 am
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Man, I'm sooooooooooooo happy to have electricity back!!!! The
blackout hit us this afternoon and we just now got our power
back on. It's 1:26am now. Spending time reading about what the
hell happened. Starting with....
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HTML http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-09/massive-power-outage-hits-southern-california/2878448]Over<br
/>5 million affected by California blackout
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It wasn't a nice feeling today. After a couple of hours with no
power, I suspected that it was bigger than just a couple of
blocks being affected. So at this time I went down to VONS just
to see what was happening. Sure enough, as soon as I get down
there, there were huge lines for both CVS and VONS. But people
were already becoming unruly. I had somehow walked right into
VONS and when I began looking for stuff that I thought I might
need, there were some people already pushing and shoving just to
get ice. We are only into a blackout for a few hours, and this
is all it takes for people to start acting out like this? Oh
brother.
I got out of there are fast as I could. I didn't want to get
caught in a place that could have gotten way out of control at
the drop of a hat.
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Re: California Blackout
By: ChipRawks Date: September 9, 2011, 3:55 am
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[CENTER]Millions without power in Southwest (CBS News)
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zvCdPQ7aa4
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Re: California Blackout
By: ChipRawks Date: September 9, 2011, 3:58 am
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[CENTER]Millions In The Dark After Power Outage (KCRA News)
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCmdbXk6V5w
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Re: California Blackout
By: Mac Date: September 9, 2011, 8:11 am
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Wow, interesting.
Watching and reading bits and pieces about the new movie
Contagion, they discussed predicted behaviour of people when the
**** hits the fan. It was not pretty and like what your saying
here, it happens easily and quickly when it comes to panic.
Those youtube clips got 'clipped' might fast.
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Re: California Blackout
By: ChipRawks Date: September 9, 2011, 8:51 am
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[quote author=Mac link=topic=303.msg1525#msg1525
date=1315573860]
Those youtube clips got 'clipped' might fast.
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Yeah, I just tried to play them again. They worked when I first
put them up. But the owner has since disabled embedding. But of
if you click on the player it will take you to the owners page
where you can watch the videos.
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Re: California Blackout
By: ChipRawks Date: September 9, 2011, 9:03 am
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[CENTER]Floods in East, Blackout in West
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UihbhdSDI
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Re: California Blackout
By: ChipRawks Date: September 9, 2011, 9:06 am
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The Employee that trigger the blackout was heard saying " I
didn't do it".
Clearly a fan of Bart Simpson.
Yes, I just made that up. But I'm hoping to start the rumor and
that it catches on by this afternoon and you can all say you
were there when it happened. ;D
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