Power Outage Affects Large Portions of Southside
Initial reports are that an underground transformer blew around 130 PM. The blast sent a manhole cover flying on Bancroft Way, just west of Telegraph. The manhole hit a car, whose driver was not injured. Power was out for just short of four hours, and seems to have returned to most areas near campus.
This scenario is very similar to that which occured in Union Square about a month ago, where a storefront was severely damaged and a woman passing by was badly injured. If the timing had been slightly different, the situation could easily have been much more grim.
I wonder if that would be covered by my insurance…
Comment by BFeinberg — September 19, 2005 @ 6:13 pm
I was 15 feet from the thing when it blew. At first I thought it was was just a blown tire on the car, but when flames and smoke started coming from the manhole…
By the way, it doesn’t hurt to have Berkeley PD’s emergency number in your cell phone. It’s 510-981-5911. UCPD’s number is 510-642-3333.
Comment by Edward Martinez — September 19, 2005 @ 6:26 pm
Many UNCONFIRMED sources have reported that it was some type of a rudimentary bomb that some douche decided to set off in the sewer.
Comment by Eddy C. — September 19, 2005 @ 9:03 pm
sounds like terrrorists or a mountain lion to me
Comment by anon — September 19, 2005 @ 10:09 pm
pretty disappointing, if this was the start of the anarchist revolution
Comment by anon54 — September 20, 2005 @ 10:08 am
Maybe it was Mano.
Comment by Mean Milky — September 20, 2005 @ 11:17 am
The Daily Cal reported that the driver was taken to the hospital because he collapsed during an examination.
Comment by Jason O. — September 20, 2005 @ 12:59 pm
was anyone there to see gregor’s rant today? wow.. he crossed the line…
it was stunning.
Comment by bsolo — September 20, 2005 @ 5:15 pm
God damn me for graduating… what did he say?
Comment by RepBast1984 — September 20, 2005 @ 6:17 pm
damn funny shiT. isnt dis da second power outage dis month? wtf is going on wiT dis retarded city?
“smashT”
Comment by smashT — September 20, 2005 @ 7:52 pm
Gregor said something about Asians being “an uptight people” and “Asian woman don’t think sex is a real thing until they are 30.” I kept waiting to for him to go somewhere with the comment, but apparently, he got turned down on the MySpace dating community or something.
Comment by Ben N. — September 21, 2005 @ 12:20 am
For anyone who wants more information about Gregor, check out his Wikipedia entry.
Comment by Ben N. — September 21, 2005 @ 12:35 am
hmmm. so who
remembers back to when i called gregor a windbag prick?
just a friendly reminder to those of you who think my insults are arbitrary. i hereby reiterate my charge of “windbag prick”.
Comment by mano — September 21, 2005 @ 9:38 am
Ben, that Wikipedia bio is horribly inaccurate. It takes quotes out of context. If you need the proof visit the library and look at the writings that it references.
Comment by cw — September 21, 2005 @ 9:52 am
James Watson, of ‘Watson and Crick’, who were able to first report the structure of DNA when electron microscopes improved, is similar to that.
When he came to campus to give some sort of honorary talk a couple years ago, people were reported scared by what a nut he is. I still see articles quoting him as an expert on other issues that don’t bring up his eugenics ideas.
At his talk, he was doing things like showing photos of fat smiling people and thin unhappy people and saying that people with the thin gene are harder workers because they aren’t easily satisfied so they strive more. Then he showed photos of happy people with dark skin and unhappy norwegians and was going down the same line saying that white people genetically are driven to work harder. The thing is, the only way there would be a mechanism for a discrete behavioral trait and another trait such as skin color to be linked would be if humans asexually propagated like bacteria/plants/snails/one lizard. However, people have recombination and what he was saying was really dumb.
Comment by cp — September 21, 2005 @ 11:30 am
Uh… I think you need to brush up on your genetics a bit, cp. Recombination isn’t going to do a whole lot when people self-select (which they do).
Comment by Beetle — September 21, 2005 @ 11:35 am
cp, two traits can have an extrinisic correlation (as opposed to an intrinsic correlation) and not be dependent on one another necessarily. An example is blonde hair and blue eyes.
Comment by cw — September 21, 2005 @ 11:53 am
I blame the frats
Comment by John — September 26, 2005 @ 8:30 pm