As if Yuma's reputation wasn't bad enough...

Being in TX the only thing affecting me is the fires. but being in the industry, I'm amused and interested as to how this came about.

hope the beer stayed cold all night for ya. Is the grid back up?
 
I got to the bar soon after it happened, so the beer was still icy cold and wonderful. The grid is back up in Yuma, but I hear that San Diego is still having issues getting their stuff right. I'm originally from Texas and my family is still in San Antonio. The drought is hittin my dad's lawn pretty hard and he is P.O.'d!
 
This whole country is quickly going into the crapper...Maybe "they" were right about the world ending in 2012...(With any luck, they WERE right.).
 
I was in San Diego yesterday when the blackout happened. We heard all sorts of rumors when it happened, we headed back to Tijuana that night and found that the blackout also left all of Baja in the dark, the power was on again at 8 pm in some parts of Baja, I think most of San Diego got the power back at about 11 pm.
People were pretty cool about the whole thing; no one got everyone behaved incredible well on bought sides of the border. It was actually very surprising to me how civil everyone was being.

It was the first time I turned on my generator, and I installed solar panels and lighting 2 years ago in my house. My home was the only one light up that night. Thinking about it now, if the power outage would have lasted more than a few days, things could have gotten very ugly. I’m sure glad that I was prepared whit most of what I needed at home. Next time I will be even more prepared.


Driving trough a blacked out Downtown San Diego was surreal.
 
if the power outage would have lasted more than a few days, things could have gotten very ugly. I’m sure glad that I was prepared whit most of what I needed at home. Next time I will be even more prepared.
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That about says it for me, as well. Gave us a chance to check on our earthquake preparedness. Most of the items I had laid in worked just fine. Found some things that I need to add. Others I just need more of.

Spent the evening reading James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific to my wife and daughter by flashlight.

We got our power back about 10:00. Some parts of the area didn't get power till 3 in the morning.
 
knarfeng said:
That about says it for me, as well. Gave us a chance to check on our earthquake preparedness. Most of the items I had laid in worked just fine. Found some things that I need to add. Others I just need more of.

Spent the evening reading James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific to my wife and daughter by flashlight.

We got our power back about 10:00. Some parts of the area didn't get power till 3 in the morning.
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Did you get the sense of overall civility from people out in the street as well? Everyone was actually calm for the most part in the past of San Diego I was in, and in Tijuana (even more surprisingly) the general public keep really calm.
 
I certainly didn't see anyone panicking. And, at least on my trip home, everyone was being careful at the signals and intersections. I didn't see anyone driving stupid.

I talked to a friend today who lives in downtown SD. He was out and about last night. He said that once the people from the offices had gone home, it was like being in a small town. A few people on the streets. Some of the bars were open and, while quite a few folks dropped in, it didn't get loud or rowdy.
 
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