Power Out In LA

Drudge has the lights up and is reporting that a large portion of LA lost power:

LA Looses Power

It’s probably an explainable utility breakdown, but with the recent Al Qaeda threat specifically naming LA, it does cause pause:

Al Qaeda's LA Threat

Let's hope it's simply a brown-out............................

Update:

Counterterrorism blog has a post up with an update per AP, MSNBC, and Fox:

Counterterrorism blog

LAPD is in full tactical alert; some areas are regaining power, LA International Airport had no power disruptions...................

Update II

Drudge is reporting that it's a self inflicted outage by the department of Water & Power, who snapped a line. That’s good news actually…………………but how does one line break put the entire city in the dark?

Update III

Now we know how it happened:

Red On Black

One line was not cut but rather workers hooked up the wrong lines to one another and sent a rush of power through a line that was not prepared to handle that much power and everything shorted out. Sort of like giveng someone a jump and putting red on black and black on red...............................