Spokane _ About 13 flights and hundreds of passengers were delayed for several hours Sunday when the Spokane International Airport suffered a power outage and its backup generator failed.

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Parochetti said Sunday's outage was unrelated to California's power problems. She said the specific cause of the outage was unknown, but that feeder lines can often sense a surge and switch off. These blackouts are triggered by anything from weather to a tree falling on a line, she said.

Or squirrels :-§

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-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 22, 2001