1.   Rolling blackouts and spiraling heat and electric bills surely feel like a crisis to many homeowners and businesses.

2.   And Brown bristled at the notion that all other matters would be put on hold while the PUC tries to address rolling blackouts and skyrocketing power prices.

3.   And they have been confronted with the kinds of unexpected challenges -- like rolling blackouts in California and rising gasoline prices -- that can derail even the best-planned agenda.

4.   And yet Peace, witnessing the unfolding chaos in San Diego and the prospect of rolling blackouts elsewhere, called upon California Gov. Gray Davis to intervene.

5.   A drought or a heat wave could still cause rolling blackouts.

6.   A presummer heat wave hit Southern California hard Monday, forcing rolling blackouts and hinting of things to come in the worsening energy crisis.

7.   After all, she said, California has an income tax, and there are those rolling blackouts.

8.   After months of close calls, the rolling blackouts began in California Wednesday, leaving hundreds of thousands of houses unheated, factories incapacitated, and traffic lights dark.

9.   Brownouts, or even rolling blackouts, threatened.

10.   Burton, however, exhibited some solidarity with Northern Californians subjected to rolling blackouts.