breathtaking incompetence

By basd on Sep 9, 2011 | In -arghhh!!

The U.S. Empire is doomed. Who designs a system where 6 million people can lose their power because of this:

"The outage occurred after an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation in southwest Arizona, officials at Phoenix-based Arizona Public Service Co. said. It was unclear why that mishap, which normally would have been isolated, sparked such a widespread outage." Forbes.

???

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San Diego is "just" the 8th largest city in the U.S., a few miles from a nuclear plant that had to be "removed from the grid to avoid volatility" or some such (as I read on the useless and seldom-updated news ticker outside the NBC building, my only source of "news" during the blackout -- my smartphone was out of juice). The ticker also said the power outage was from loss of a "major transmission line" from Arizona.

Either way (or neither way, if you know what I mean), are you kidding me???

P.S. -- also resulted in a 3.2 million gal.(?) raw sewage dump into the ocean at San Diego, closing beaches.