A second straight day of interrupted power gave another 128,000 Southern California Edison customers the blackout blues Tuesday. Michael Reyes of Fontana waits for the power to come back on so he can buy some gasoline at a station at Cherry Avenue and Foothill Boulevard.
Officials expect heat and power shortages to require an encore today.
A scoreboard at a high school baseball game in Hemet fizzled out in the fourth inning. Some were excited to experience their first blackout, said Jason Scott, principal at the 852-student school. Her mother, Leslie Cremer, was late picking her up because her electric garage door opener wouldn't work with the power outage. I know how to disengage my automatic garage door opener. The big thing was not being able to call her daughter because the family uses a cordless phone.