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YOU MAY HAVE HEARD that Los Angeles International airport was totally shut down yesterday for several hours.
A spokesman for Southern California Edison said a vehicle that crashed into a power pole in Palmdale caused a power fluctuation, which prompted the air traffic control center's backup generator to automatically turn on. About an hour later that generator failed.
"Their backup generator sensed there was a problem and kicked in, but for some inexplicable reason it malfunctioned," said Marlon Walker, a utility spokesman.
...At Los Angeles International Airport, the world's fifth-busiest in passenger volume, 221 flights with about 25,000 passengers were delayed, diverted to other airports, or canceled, said airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles.
I was in a plane that was supposed to land at LAX at 7pm. We circled over Phoenix until about 7, then landed in Tucson. (Las Vegas airport was packed with planes finding a place to land - and Phoenix had a sandstorm). We stayed in the plane until around 12pm, got into LA at 1pm, and sat in the plane again until 2pm waiting for a gate to open.
Yuck.
