As Lights Go Out, Power Worries Rise
· Mistake by DWP workers cuts electricity across the L.A. area. Public officials express doubts about the city system's integrity.
By Sharon Bernstein, Hector Becerra and Mitchell Landsberg, Times Staff Writers
A mistake on a single bundle of wires Monday cascaded into a major blackout in and around Los Angeles, inconveniencing millions of people and renewing questions about the vulnerability of the region's power system.
Coming one day after a purported Al Qaeda threat of attack on the city, the midday outage pricked nerves and caused isolated incidents of panic. Plumes of flame and smoke heightened the drama as refineries, temporarily shut by the outage, flared off excess gases.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-power13sep13,0,1192306.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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09/14/05 09:46:08 Fast traceroute
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21 64.56.192.35 * * 615ms TTL: 0 (csr2-ve240.SantaClarasc5.savvis.net ok)
22 64.56.197.250 * 621ms 638ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
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· Mistake by DWP workers cuts electricity across the L.A. area. Public officials express doubts about the city system's integrity.
By Sharon Bernstein, Hector Becerra and Mitchell Landsberg, Times Staff Writers
A mistake on a single bundle of wires Monday cascaded into a major blackout in and around Los Angeles, inconveniencing millions of people and renewing questions about the vulnerability of the region's power system.
Coming one day after a purported Al Qaeda threat of attack on the city, the midday outage pricked nerves and caused isolated incidents of panic. Plumes of flame and smoke heightened the drama as refineries, temporarily shut by the outage, flared off excess gases.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-power13sep13,0,1192306.story?coll=la-home-headlines
And this is my traceroute from Sam Spade:
09/14/05 09:46:08 Fast traceroute
---snip—
19 204.70.192.114 * * 658ms TTL: 0 (dcr1-so-2-0-0.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net ok)
20 No Response * * *
21 64.56.192.35 * * 615ms TTL: 0 (csr2-ve240.SantaClarasc5.savvis.net ok)
22 64.56.197.250 * 621ms 638ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
23 No Response * * *
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