Hundreds of hot and angry LA residents still without power
LOS ANGELES - Before the scorching heat descended on Los Angeles last week, the L.A. Department of Water and Power assured residents it had "adequate resources" to meet the electrical demands of their air conditioners and refrigerators as temperatures rose.
It did, in fact, have enough power to go around, utility officials said Monday, after tens of thousands of people had suffered outages.
But officials said that in many neighborhoods, its aging infrastructure could not handle the surging demand for electricity as Angelenos ran their air conditioning day and night.
Tens of thousands of people lost electricity as Los Angeles baked in sizzling heat this weekend, leaving many residents fuming as they went days without power. Some complained that the
