The power was out in LA
Posted: Monday, September 12, 2005 6:44 PM
by
dave
Filed under: PDC
After registering for PDC. I hopped on the bus back to the hotel the driver pointed out that one of the traffic lights was out. Then another and another. All of LA was out. When I got to the hotel the manager was in the lobby explaining that the power was out.
Without a computer and the internet what can you do? So I went for a walk, left my tooth brush at home so I had to get one. I passed by a wrap place and they were serving as long as you had cash. The lady in there told me it might be terrorists. She has worked in down town LA for many years the power has never gone out. :)
After I ate I noticed the lights on in the hotel lobby so I went up to my room and turned on the TV. Pretty much every channel had the LA Power Outage running across the banner at the bottom with Ariel shots of suburban LA.
Turns out someone at hydro cut the wrong cable. Accidents happen.
By the way if anyone from LA is reading this. When the traffic lights are out treat the intersection like a four way stop.
Tonight I'm heading back the the convention centre for the The 64-Bit Question, a .NET Rocks! Quiz Show
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