san diego power outage

That in turn led to a blockage at California's San Onofre nuclear energy plant, a second major source of power to the San Diego area, San Diego Gas and Electric said. San Diego Gas and Electric said in a tweet that all 1.4 million of its customers in the San Diego area were without power. The city of Yuma, Arizona, reported that more than 50 000 people had lost power. Many of the tweets from San Diego residents revolved around air conditioning. Blackouts hit Mexico's Northern Baja California state in the afternoon, knocking out power to hundreds of maquiladora export assembly plants in the sprawling industrial powerhouse of Tijuana, south of San Diego.

By late Thursday, power had been restored to thousands in California's San Diego and Orange counties, though more than a million people were still without power, the company said. Officials warned it would take until at least Friday to restore power in portions of San Diego and Orange counties. The power outage shut down two reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente, California, authorities said. At the height of the power outage, San Diego Gas & Electric said all of its 1.4 million customers were without power. Power outages in California stretched from San Clemente in Orange County to the state's border with Mexico. In Arizona, about 56,000 customers in Yuma lost power, Arizona Power and Supply said.















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http://www.news24.com/World/News/Millions-left-without-power-in-US-Mexico-20110909
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/09/california.power.outages/