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CA: The heat is on (in more ways then one!)
Mercury News ^ | 6/3/03 | Michael Bazeley

Posted on 06/03/2003 8:59:00 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:31:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Felipe Baca tries to cool off after a racket ball game in San Jose's Backesto Park on a hot Monday afternoon.

When warmer-than-expected temperatures prompted California's energy grid operators to declare a power alert last week, they quickly stressed that the warning was not a harbinger of things to come.


(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: blackout; caiso; calgov2002; california; calpowercrisis; energy; heat; outage; power
Expect a balancing act... Oy!
1 posted on 06/03/2003 8:59:01 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'm sweating just reading this article! Ping
2 posted on 06/03/2003 9:00:07 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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To: NormsRevenge; *calgov2002; *calpowercrisis; randita; SierraWasp; Carry_Okie; okie01; ...
If it is hot this summer we are going to see blackouts I believe!

We need some power plants built and they need to be started yesterday!

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3 posted on 06/03/2003 10:42:10 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We need some power plants built and they need to be started yesterday!

And you need to keep the ones you have from breaking. As I recall, a fire at San Onofre shut down one of the nukes during the height of your power crisis two years ago.

4 posted on 06/03/2003 10:53:08 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: NormsRevenge
It's 68 degrees at 11:01 a.m. where I am.. This cold weather sucks....
5 posted on 06/03/2003 11:01:14 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Joe Hadenuf; NormsRevenge
I am at 71.6 in my little computer room here near the beach and it is overcast.

May not see the Sun again today!
6 posted on 06/03/2003 11:04:09 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
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To: Dog Gone
Well, I am sure something like that won't happen again. /sarcasm
7 posted on 06/03/2003 11:05:20 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
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To: NormsRevenge
Time to get rid of Gray (and Boxer and Feinstein and Lee and Pelosi and . . .)
8 posted on 06/03/2003 11:15:44 AM PDT by No Dems 2004
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To: No Dems 2004
Free California!!!
9 posted on 06/03/2003 2:06:59 PM PDT by NEWwoman
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To: NormsRevenge; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Eureka pushed the envelope today. Officially we got to 65 but in my garden it must have been 70...

Just over the hill in Redding it was 102 and Corning was 106...

10 posted on 06/03/2003 6:26:25 PM PDT by tubebender ((?))
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