I write this in Michigan but it’s hosted in California. And evidently it’s a part of California that was hit by today’s unscheduled blackout. According to Yahoo!:The outage began at about 12:30 p.m. when workers installing an automated alert system cut several wires simultaneously, instead of one at a time, according to Ed Miller of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
That caused the short that led to all the trouble. Utility officials initially said the outage occurred when the cables were incorrectly reconnected.
The news channels are already saying the Governor of Louisiana was ill-prepared for the outage.
It was around that same time (3:30 EDT) I noticed trouble accessing my e-mail. I checked IPowerWeb’s front page and confirmed they were affected. They hoped to get rectify the situation by 5 PM their time, but my site didn’t come back online until 12:30 AM (EDT), four and a half hours later.
And what’s the first thing I see when the page loads up? Frigging Shoutbox spam.
