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To: Fun-da-Mental#1 who wrote (60653)	1/23/2001 12:44:05 AM
From: oldirtybastard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

It will be interesting to see how employees execute at EIX, PCG when the margin for human error is probably a lot less than it used to be. I would bet morale at the cali utes ain't so high what with everyone pissed at them and their 401k's going in the crapper. One morning someone could just say, "F*ck this Bruce, I've had it, let's see how those yuppie bastards at CSCO work in the dark" -g-

To: Fun-da-Mental#1 who wrote (60653)	1/23/2001 9:11:01 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Fun- Prior to last Wednesday when the Stage 3 alerts began there was at least one CA based generator off line, a DUK facility. Then last Wed. night on the CBS evening news I heard that another went off-line for maintenance. That was the straw that broke the camel's back and made the ISO go to Stage 3 alerts. Further reading of the LA Times revealed there were more plants off line last week... perhaps several. These plants were expected to come back on-line this week and relieve the crunch. This may account for the manner in which the outages took place. (I really had to dig for this info to determine if it was a sudden increase in demand or some other factor like plants off line.)