Could this be linked to solar emissions?

Originally posted by wongy
well... mitch told you so:

SOMETHING did happen beneath the obvious smoke screen of a bumbling worker.

The DAY BEFORE the "blackout" in San Diego, my bro drove out to San Onofre to watch the sunset. As he passed the entrance to the beacch parking lot, he noticed a HUGE metal tube beiing loaded onto a semi-flatbed, suspended in some kind of steel grid. Inside was what looked like a giant motor. Whatever was being loaded appeared to come from the nuclear reactors (the cylindrical "breasts" that define the San Onofre power plant) where a giant crane was poised at the water's edge.

Finding it odd, but with a lot on his mind, my brother turned his attention to setting up on the beach to do some Yoga. He stretched out on his beach blanket as the setting sun shown around him and drifted off to sleep. He awoke just after full-darkness to the sound of helicopters coming in and landing next to the reactors. All the other cars in the parking lot were gone and he was the only one left on the beach. My bro observed six to eight large cargo helicopters (double bladed) fly in from Pendalton and land next to Onofre's nuclear reactors. He couldn't see if anything/anyone was being loaded or unloaded because all the cargo 'copters were flying IN TOTAL DARKNESS.

Why would half a dozen cargo helicopters be flying into a nuclear power plant with ALL their lights off? OBVIOUSLY, they didn't want to be seen by the general public.

Gathering his gear as quickly as possible, my brother hopped in his car and sped back towards the highway. As he passed the parking entrance, he noticed that the giant semi flatbed with the huge payload was gone.

The next morning -- the SAME day as the "blackout" -- I drove down to San Diego from LA for a reception. As I passed the San Onofre nuke plant, my companions exclaimed their amazement with a tubular structure suspended within a steel "cage" w/in a "cage" on the back of a semi-truck. They described the structure as massive, but since I was driving, I missed it.

That afternoon the power popped off, and our evening event was cancelled. None of the street lights worked, cell coverage was spotty to none, and the blackness that fell upon the city was only lessened by the moon's meager light. We all wondered if it had anything to do with the nuke plant. The cover of darkness would help a covert mission go unnoticed. We later learned that a "7-car pileup" on the 5 fwy blocked traffic in both directions. Coincidence?

Electricity was restored around midnite. A friend living in north-county said that something had happened at the plant and it had since been buzzing with activity. Undaunted, we set out to make the long drive back up to LA. It had been a sunny day and as evening fell, there was great visibility. The stars were out en mass.

We hoped to catch sight of San Onofre from the highway, but an incredibly dense fog strangely fell upon us. As we rolled pat the plant, we could barely see the tail lights from the car in front of us, much less the nuke reactors yards away on the beach. All the highway lights were dark up into central Orange County.

What are your thoughts on this ATS'ers?

What could those tubular engine things be?

Did anyone else see the same?

What I think is really stupid about this event is that the spokes people for the company claim that the event was caused by workers that removed something/messed something up causing the chain reaction.

You honestly expect me to believe that power for the entire SW coast of the US AND northern Mexico lost power because some employees broke something? I could believe it if it only happened in AZ but COME ON!

Solar flare is more believable than that.

It was copper thieves! A flash mob of Mexican copper thieves stole all the copper from the power transmission lines between Arizona and California, and on down through Baja California, and made a lot of money salvaging it. The explosions that occurred near Salton Sea were salvage yards that thought they could cheat on the scale weight, got caught, and were blown up by the angry Mexican mobsters...

In retrospect, it's absolutely AMAZING how fast PG&E and SDG&E can lay new powerlines to bring people back online!!!

I live in Chicopee, Massachusetts and my power went out two days ago around 10pm, and also sprinfield lost its power too for more than an hour

This might be a good time to learn how to get by without electricity.

The boatig and sailing sites are great places for that. People sail around the world without electricity for months a a time and get by just fine.

Some of their tips are...
Have powdered milk and only mix up as much as you are going to drink or use right then.
Eggs really don't need to be refrigereated.
Ditto mayonase -but you need to use a 'clean' knife every time or it will go bad from the bacteria a dirty knife can introduce.
Ice is a luxury not a need.
etc, etc, etc.

Yeah, living in Asia is good and bad - power infrastructure is crap so we lose power about 2 times a week but because of this nearly everyone has a fuel powered backup system.