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386865 03: Yolanda Flores, left, watches as fellow Baskin Robbins ice cream shop employee John Austin finishes off an ice cream after a sudden loss of electricity closes the store during a rolling blackout in La Jolla, CA, March 19, 2001, for the first time since the begining of a state-wide power crisis. The rolling blackouts, which darkened 500,000 homes for one to six hours at a time, were orchestrated by the California Independent Operator’s System (ISO), which monitors the state’s power grid, because of warm weather, a higher power demand, and lack of electricity from the Northwest dropping reserves to less than one-and-one-half percent. (Photo by David McNew/Newsmaker
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