Two attorneys talk on their cell phones outside a building in Bunker Hill during the blackout. (Iris Schneider / LAT)
Bunker Hill office workers mill around outside their blacked-out buildings. (Brian Vander Brug / LAT)
The blackout led to traffic snarls such as this one at the intersection of 3rd and North Alvarado streets in Los Angeles. (Al Seib / LAT)
Fidel Lemus, a cook at the Don Diego Mexican Restaurant in Burbank, had to work by the light from a kitchen window during the blackout. (Lawrence K. Ho / LAT)
A Ralphs store in Burbank closed during the power outage. (Lawrence K. Ho / LAT)
This woman was stuck in the elevator at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. (Francine Orr / LAT)
People wait for a train in Downtown Los Angeles. Metro Rail Trains were delayed because of the blackout. (Francine Orr / LAT)
A power surge started a fire in the fuse box of this house in Van Nuys. Firefighters contained the fire. (Carlos Chavez / LAT)
Mondays power outage occurred when a worker cut the wrong wires at this DWP receiving station in Toluca Lake. (Carlos Chavez / LAT)
