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This San Diego, Convenience Store is not very convenient. A power outage has cut service from San Diego to Orange County, Arizona to Baja Mexico. A reported 6 million people are presently, without electricity this evening. According to a System Operator, a main line which connects Arizona to California has failed.
Paul Klein, a spokesman, for Southern California Edison said, that the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, was forced into an automatic shutdown due to this loss of power. SoCal Edison said that they have no idea when power will return or when they can restart the Nuclear Power Plant.
Sempra Energy supplies gas and electricity to San Diego. Tonight, Jennifer Ramp, a Sempra spokes-person said that because of this outage, all 1.4 residents of their serving area are without power.
Although the actual reason for the outage is unknown at this time, fingers are beginning to point. According to Damon Gross, from the Arizona Public Service, one of their Utility employees had been working at the North Gila Substation, which is where they claim the problem originated.
So far, the majority of emergency service reports are coming from San Diego. These consisted of people being stranded on trains or in elevators. As of yet, there have been no injuries or deaths related to the outage.
