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The city of drugs.. I mean the city of Love is out of power...
LOS Lakerville no worky...
"Large Portion of Los Angeles Loses Power
By LAURA WIDES, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES -- A large portion of Los Angeles was hit with a blackout Monday afternoon.
The city was investigating the cause and extent of the outage. But Sgt. Catherine Plows, a police spokeswoman, said terrorism was not suspected.
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Electrical power was knocked out shortly before 1 p.m. after two power surges, and traffic was snarled at intersections throughout the city when stop lights went dark. The lights also went out at downtown high-rises.
The Police Department went on "full tactical alert," meaning no officers were allowed to leave duty.
The blackout came a day after ABC aired a videotape of a purported al-Qaida member making terrorist threats against Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia, on the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Heavy usage on hot days can lead to blackouts. But the weather in Los Angeles was not unsually hot Monday"
eh?
News outlets are reporting major power outage in Los Angeles. Nothing really to link yet it's breaking news.
They just broke in to programming with a report about it. They were talking about people being stuck in elevators. Man wouldn't it suck if you were one of the NO evacuees who got sent to CA and then got stuck in some elevator somewhere in CA today. Talk about bad luck.
The temps where in the 80's today... hum. It could be mechanical (blown gear) or maybe Solar flare (there have been warnings issued recently)..
Or sabotage....
LA City, County, Long Beach etc has brown outs & black outs every day...We are talking hundreds of square miles....And our news casters have a flair for the dramatic...
Latest al Quaida video tape said LA was next.
It's just a suitcase nuclear bomb.
No worries, FEMA will clean it all up .... eventually.
Thank God we live in Texas and have our own independent power grid.LA City, County, Long Beach etc has brown outs & black outs every day...We are talking hundreds of square miles....And our news casters have a flair for the dramatic...Things are fine...
It was used to mask a jewelry/art heist.
I still plan on buying a generator soon.. the problem with gasoline.. even with STA BIL it's only good 6 months..
How scary.
I think it could be this... as I suspected earlier..
Major Flare Erupts
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 09 September 2005
10:33 pm ET
Updated 12:36 p.m. ET Sept. 11
An ongoing series of seven major solar flares, including two on Saturday, could disrupt communications on Earth and generate colorful sky shows for people at high northern la udes for the next several days.
Already satellites have been affected. Even more serious effects are possible this week.
The spate of activity from the Sun is being generated by a large sunspot named 798. Sunspots are cooler and darker regions of pent-up magnetic activity. When they unleash their energy, it's a bit like the top coming off a shaken champagne bottle.
The sunspot is just rotating into view, so its energy has been directed sideways and not directly at Earth. In coming days, if more major flares erupt as forecasters expect, they'll head right at us and radio blackouts, cell phone dropouts and other communications disruptions are more likely, scientists said.
Solar flares send radiation to Earth in about 8 minutes. Hours later, clouds of charged particles can engulf the planet. If the magnetic field of a storm is oriented opposite to our planet's protective magnetic field, gaps are created and radiation leaks to the planet's surface, potentially threatening astronauts aboard the International Space Station, sometimes shorting out satellites, and even causing terrestrial power grids to trip.
Solar activity is at "very high levels," according to NOAA's Space Environment Center (SEC).
The SEC has reported that agencies have experienced problems with fluctuations in their
electric power systems due to the severe levels of geomagnetic activity. Spacecraft operations, high-frequency communications, and navigation systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation of satellites "are also experiencing impacts due to the strong to severe solar activity."
A severe geomagnetic storm produced aurora sightings along the northern tier of the United States, and even as far south as Arizona. Aurora are colorful sky lights triggered when charged particles excite molecules in the atmosphere.
According to one eyewitness from British Columbia, Canada, the solar storm is lighting up the sky. "It is 10 p.m. and the northern sky here is aglow, as if there were a major league night game at the nearby school," local resident of Cortes Island, John Sprungman, told SPACE.com. He reported no special effects at this moment other than the bright night sky.
There have been seven major flares in recent days, including a tremendous X-17 eruption Wednesday. An event Friday evening was an X-6. On Saturday, an X-1 and an X-2 erupted. Even an X-1 can cause severe disruptions.
The largest flare in modern times was recorded in November 2003 and was estimated to be an X-40. It, too, was on the limb of the Sun and so its full impact was not felt on Earth. That flare was part of an unprecedented series of 10 major flares within two weeks; at least one Earth-orbiting satellite was disabled and one instrument aboard a Mars-orbiting craft was knocked offline.
This week's series is the most impressive since then.
Each storm is different, and often solar activity goes unnoticed on Earth, depending on whether a storm hits us square or makes a glancing blow and what the magnetic orientation is.
If enough storms erupt, the odds go up that there will be effects here. And the likelihood of Earth taking one directly on the chin goes up with each passing day as the sunspot takes aim.
There is a 75 percent chance of more X-class flares each day through Tuesday, the SEC says.
On Friday, a space radiation storm was captured in an image from the SOHO spacecraft, which monitors the Sun.
The Sun is currently at a low point in its 11-year cycle of activity. While sunspots and flares are less common now, astronomers say they can pack plenty of punch when they do occur.
A movie revealing some of the flare activity through Friday is available here.
Another movie [Mpeg version / Large Quicktime Version] shows four moderate flares and two major flares from Friday, as seen by NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft. The images, taken in the extreme ultraviolet range, show radiation from plasma at 1 million to 2 million degrees. Loops extending out from the Sun are the result of plasma confined to travel along the coronal magnetic field which has emerged from below the photosphere, explained Jonathan Cirtain of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
SPACE.com's Leonard David contributed to this report.
Major Flare Erupts
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 09 September 2005
10:33 pm ET
Updated 12:36 p.m. ET Sept. 11
An ongoing series of seven major solar flares, including two on Saturday, could disrupt communications on Earth and generate colorful sky shows for people at high northern la udes for the next several days.
Already satellites have been affected. Even more serious effects are possible this week.
The spate of activity from the Sun is being generated by a large sunspot named 798. Sunspots are cooler and darker regions of pent-up magnetic activity. When they unleash their energy, it's a bit like the top coming off a shaken champagne bottle.
The sunspot is just rotating into view, so its energy has been directed sideways and not directly at Earth. In coming days, if more major flares erupt as forecasters expect, they'll head right at us and radio blackouts, cell phone dropouts and other communications disruptions are more likely, scientists said.
Solar flares send radiation to Earth in about 8 minutes. Hours later, clouds of charged particles can engulf the planet. If the magnetic field of a storm is oriented opposite to our planet's protective magnetic field, gaps are created and radiation leaks to the planet's surface, potentially threatening astronauts aboard the International Space Station, sometimes shorting out satellites, and even causing terrestrial power grids to trip.
Solar activity is at "very high levels," according to NOAA's Space Environment Center (SEC).
The SEC has reported that agencies have experienced problems with fluctuations in their
electric power systems due to the severe levels of geomagnetic activity. Spacecraft operations, high-frequency communications, and navigation systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation of satellites "are also experiencing impacts due to the strong to severe solar activity."
A severe geomagnetic storm produced aurora sightings along the northern tier of the United States, and even as far south as Arizona. Aurora are colorful sky lights triggered when charged particles excite molecules in the atmosphere.
According to one eyewitness from British Columbia, Canada, the solar storm is lighting up the sky. "It is 10 p.m. and the northern sky here is aglow, as if there were a major league night game at the nearby school," local resident of Cortes Island, John Sprungman, told SPACE.com. He reported no special effects at this moment other than the bright night sky.
There have been seven major flares in recent days, including a tremendous X-17 eruption Wednesday. An event Friday evening was an X-6. On Saturday, an X-1 and an X-2 erupted. Even an X-1 can cause severe disruptions.
The largest flare in modern times was recorded in November 2003 and was estimated to be an X-40. It, too, was on the limb of the Sun and so its full impact was not felt on Earth. That flare was part of an unprecedented series of 10 major flares within two weeks; at least one Earth-orbiting satellite was disabled and one instrument aboard a Mars-orbiting craft was knocked offline.
This week's series is the most impressive since then.
Each storm is different, and often solar activity goes unnoticed on Earth, depending on whether a storm hits us square or makes a glancing blow and what the magnetic orientation is.
If enough storms erupt, the odds go up that there will be effects here. And the likelihood of Earth taking one directly on the chin goes up with each passing day as the sunspot takes aim.
There is a 75 percent chance of more X-class flares each day through Tuesday, the SEC says.
On Friday, a space radiation storm was captured in an image from the SOHO spacecraft, which monitors the Sun.
The Sun is currently at a low point in its 11-year cycle of activity. While sunspots and flares are less common now, astronomers say they can pack plenty of punch when they do occur.
A movie revealing some of the flare activity through Friday is available here.
Another movie [Mpeg version / Large Quicktime Version] shows four moderate flares and two major flares from Friday, as seen by NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft. The images, taken in the extreme ultraviolet range, show radiation from plasma at 1 million to 2 million degrees. Loops extending out from the Sun are the result of plasma confined to travel along the coronal magnetic field which has emerged from below the photosphere, explained Jonathan Cirtain of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
SPACE.com's Leonard David contributed to this report.
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Seems kind of fishy to me that recently they showed new Al Queda tapes and now we have a massive power outage in L.A. Scare tactics anyone? Seems like someone is trying to divert attention away from the Katrina Hurricane issue. Seeing what we have seen from the Bush administration this theory would not be far off.
Thank God we live in Texas and have our own independent power grid.
the question we should be asking is; where's kobe?
how is nick cannon gonna be hilarious?
NO! You cannot divert any more power from the Pacific Northwest to SoCal! Deal with it!
lol, people are so paranoid! I bet if a middle eastern looking man farted, everyone in America would be screaming "THEY'RE GASSING US! ITS THE TERRORIST! ITS A CHEMICAL STRIKE! EVERYONE TAKE COVER!"
Last edited by MaNuMaNiA; 09-12-2005 at 05:32 PM.
Ok i'll admit.. I listen to Art Bell....
lol, people are so paranoid! I bet if a middle eastern looking man farted, everyone in America would be screaming "THEY'RE GASSING US! ITS THE TERRORIST! ITS A CHEMICAL STRIKE! EVERYONE TAKE COVER!"
it was a joke sami, sorry I forgot to put the laughing smile next to it. I guess I should add overly sensitive next to paranoid...j/k
You're an asshole.
Didn't you see the Al-Qaida video the day before talking about doing something to LA?
Moron.
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