California residents are once again struggling to keep the lights on after as many as 50,000 people lost electricity in a heat wave this past weekend that caused the famed Hollywood Bowl to cancel a concert due to the power outage.
The Hollywood Bowl was forced to cancel its Sept. 8 show due to a power outage.
The venue posted on its website that the concert, headlined by Vance Joy, had been called off.
The Reporter said that it was unclear what caused the outage, but KABC-7 blamed the heat:
The heat was affecting electrical equipment as utilities scrambled to dispatch crews.
That left many thousands of people without working air conditioning or refrigeration during one of the hottest days of the year.
…
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power crews were working as quickly as they could, restoring power to some 50,000 customers. But the wait can be miserable.
The weekend’s power failures, which began as early as Friday, marked at least the third time in the past five years that Californians have had to endure power outages in warm weather — and without the high winds that sometimes trigger power utilities to shut off electricity for fear of sparking fires with downed transmission lines.
Great, they are getting exactly what they voted for