You stay darkened, San Diego.

It was just supposed to be a localized outage while a utility company was switching out a piece of faulty equipment.  Somehow, things got more problematic than that.  Thanks to a utility company error, five million people in the Southwest are without power, including most of the spider-infested city of San Diego.  The blackout covers portions of California, Arizona, and Mexico, which is very hot this time of year (and by this time of year, I mean all the time).

“This was not a deliberate act.  The employee was just switching out a piece of equipment that was problematic,” said Dan Froetscher, a vice president with Arizona Public Service, the company responsible for the piece of malfunctioning equipment.

The company is currently investigating why the power outage stretched so far; the company says it should have been local to Yuma, Arizona.  Unfortunately for them, that was not the case.  As for what caused the equipment to be faulty?  I blame possums.  Possums love to turn cities dark.  Customers will be without power until later today, when hopefully everything comes back online.  If they don’t, I suggest you start cooking your frozen goods now.

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