http://www.msnbc.com/news/500429.asp On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Roeland Meyer wrote:

Can you send links for this one? I'd like to a littel of my own snooping.

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-----Original Message----- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:32 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: California power - its cold, its dark

Approximately one-third of California's power generating capacitiy is off-line. The California system operator has called a "stage 3" power alert, requiring *interruptiable* customers be interrupted until 10pm tonight. They are not instituting rotating blackouts of other customers at this time.