PDC05: Day Two (The Blackout)


LOS ANGELES, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A utility worker overloaded an electrical circuit and caused a massive power blackout across much of Los Angeles on Monday, snarling traffic, stranding office workers in elevators and sending fire trucks with blaring sirens racing around the city
Some two million people were hit by the outage, which plunged busy intersections into chaos, jammed cars on the freeways and sent office workers streaming out of downtown buildings to mill about on sidewalks. Those trapped in elevators made frantic calls for help.
The utility worker "directed too much amperage into a circuit that did not have the capacity to handle it," said Kim Hughes, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. ...
Reuters
Robert and I sat down in the "Tools & Languages" area of the Big Room to blog while we waited for the sessions to be reset to new times. Unfortunately, there was no announcement of the sessions being restarted and I missed Brandon Bray's second presentation. I did manage to see the presentation by Jeff Peil.
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that is wild that one clumsy move can blackout an entire city...
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