that's what shannon mcginess heard. noticed two immediate brief power blitz, but the real problem was on the road. four live transmission lines landed on the roadway, backing up traffic for miles and hours with people parking and turning off their engines, leaving some to jump fences and drive the wrong way to escape the gridlock. >> something we are very surprised and thankful. >> pg&e was deenergizing the lines. the utility line says their people were on scene in ten minutes. >> we have all the right people in the right places responding accordingly, we do with the job of this magnitude, we do need to have specialized equipment, materials, personal and vehicles in order to make the necessary repairs. >> the electrical grid had redundancies to make sure the power stays on, even in the face of a mass of mangled metal. >> in order to do so, it will take an incredible amount of work. this is not a routine outage. >> pg&e is calling this a temporary fix at this point. more permanent work will be need to be done to repair t