Power outages in LA

Juney's not here - someone's gotta post the CNN reports!

What's going ON out there?

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Power outages hit Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- 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.

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 Qaeda member making terrorist threats against Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia, on the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Heavy usage on hot days can lead to blackouts. But the weather in Los Angeles was not unusually hot Monday.

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I didn't know there were threats yesterday?! I wasn't home all day, maybe that's why.

Still, can you imagine all those people stuck in elevators and stuff? SCARY!

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Scary stuff. I heard yesterday about Al-Qaeda making threats and I hate to admit it, but I didn't really pay attention. I mean, when ISN'T Al-Qaeda making threats? What else do they do with themselves?

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lol - true.

I just heard an updated report on TV- looks like power won't be restored for about 24 hrs or more...there's already looting in Compton, because security systems are down.

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maybe the idiot who made the threats happened to watch the long range weather report????