Oops, someone unplugged Los Angeles.

[substitute]

...and Cal-ISO's website is only showing moderate demand. I wonder what they screwed up this time? Looks like a bigass outage, too. My office went down right away.

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[sachmet]

TERRAH IS AFOOT:Terrorism was not suspected, according to Sgt. Catherine Plows, though the department went on "full tactical alert," meaning no officers were allowed to leave duty.

tac alert! tac alert!

[substitute]

The "full tactical alert" is a gimme for reporters. Actually the LAPD goes on tac alert all too frequently. A bad Saturday night with lots of crimes, or a shortage of officers, or a street festival is enough for them to declare a divisional or citywide tac alert. It really just means "you can't go home until we say so" but it sounds like thousands of SWAT guys leaping into helicopters to safe freedom.

Re: tac alert! tac alert!

[trinnit]

To be the guy who thinks of these terms to excite the media.

[bruisedhips]

I'm watching the news. It's hysterical. The desk jockey keeps asking the DWP "What can we tell people at home with no power right now"?
Hellooooooooo? Most people without POWER are not watching the news on TV.

[fattmike]

Oops. Sounds like someone accidentally cut a line. I wonder if "Brownie", of former FEMA fame, paid the worker so as to deflect attention away from him. Or something.

Here in the East, it was comical watching them interrupt a Special Report for a Special Report. Oh, nested do loops, how we love thee.

[changeng]

hey! i was meditating and lost control of the real world for a moment. won't happen again, I promise.

Admit it...

[substitute]

You're just shielding Carlos.