San Diego Power Grid Gets Knocked Out Leaving 1.4 People Million In The Dark
San Diego was brought to a virtual stand-still Thursday when the power grid went offline and more than 1.4 million people lost electricity.
According to NBC San Diego a failure in the system caused a cascading effect that took out one portion after another, all the way into Mexico where two nuclear power plants had to be taken offline.
By 2 a.m. local time engineers had restored large sections of the city, but many will be without power until late Friday afternoon.
As a precautionary measure San Diego Mayor Jerry Sander has issued a mandatory boil-water order after water pumps went down.
The outage is being investigated, but officials expect it to be traced to an employee altering some monitoring equipment at a substation in southwest Arizona.
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