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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A major power outage knocked out electricity to more than 2 million people in California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, bringing San Diego and Tijuana to a standstill and leaving people sweltering in the late-summer heat in the surrounding desert.

Two nuclear reactors were offline after losing electricity, but officials said there was no danger to the public or workers. FBI officials ruled out terrorism while power plant authorities struggled to find the cause of the outage that started shortly before 4 p.m. PDT.

San Diego bore the brunt of the blackout; most of the nation's eighth-largest city was darkened. All outgoing flights from San Diego's Lindbergh Field were grounded and police stations were using generators to accept emergency calls across the area.
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About 11 years ago, a company called 'Enron' played game with California's deregulation and jerked 1/4th of the US economy into recession. This one seems a little better hidden but it really sounds like the same song.

If you own a Prius (or other hybrid) in the Southwest and haven't installed a reasonably sized inverter, well you must love paying premium prices for crappy service. As for your neighbors who don't have a hybrid, let them enjoy the consequences of their decision. Smile, be kind, but really, they have made their sweat-stained beds.

Bob Wilson