-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tuesday May 8 11:33 AM ET California Officials Warn Blackouts Likely Today SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California energy officials warned Tuesday that rolling blackouts were likely for a second consecutive day due to temperatures that were near record highs and a severe electricity shortage. ``It is looking definitely worse today,'' said Stephanie McCorkle, a spokeswoman for the California Independent System Operator (news - web sites). The ISO is the agency that manages most of the state's power transmission system. ``We're predicting rolling blackouts could begin as early as 9 a.m., possibly lasting through 4 p.m. She said the state was facing a shortfall of 2,000 megawatts -- roughly enough to power 2 million homes -- due to a second day of heavy air conditioning demand during a blistering spring heat wave and repair or refueling outages at several of the region's big nuclear power plants. Blackouts, ordered whenever electricity reserves drop to within 1.5 percent of demand, rolled through California for about an hour Monday afternoon -- the fifth time this year and the first since March -- knocking out power to an estimated 225,000 customers. Blackout dims Yahoo services By Evan Hansen;Gwendolyn Mariano CNET News.com Yahoo blamed a power outage in California for disruption in some of its services Monday, including Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo said its servers, which are hosted by Santa Clara, Calif.-based Exodus Communications, were hit by the outage. That in turn affected Yahoo's personalized services, including instant messenger. Exodus could not immediately be reached for comment. Yahoo did not indicate when the system problems started. Some customers began to complain by early afternoon of interruptions, which were ongoing as this report was published. "One of Yahoo's service providers was affected by the power outages California is experiencing today which consequently affected the accessibility of a few Yahoo services, including Yahoo Messenger," said Shannon Stubo, a Yahoo spokeswoman. "They are working to quickly remedy the situation and hope to have it resolved shortly." California has been suffering from power shortages since early this year, leading power regulators in the state to call for conservation and institute rolling blackouts. Tight electricity supplies and high demand led to two days of rolling blackouts Jan. 17 and 18 in Northern California and statewide blackouts March 19 and 20. The California Independent System Operator (news - web sites) (CAISO), the keeper of the state's power grid, implemented a Stage 1 emergency notice at 8:04 a.m., indicating that demand was likely to outstrip supply. The emergency was upgraded to Stage 3, the highest level, at 5:01 p.m. The crisis was set off after a day of high temperatures across the state, and with several power plants offline for pre-summer maintanence. Outages affecting Internet service have not been limited to California. AOL Time Warner's America Online in April blamed a brief service interruption on a power outage affecting Northern Virginia. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
