[GOPrincess]

I'm in CA and there was a relatively short failure of the Western power grid a few years ago...seems like they were able to tell us in relatively short order what the problem was. Hmmmm. With all the information they use to balance the power and so on, they have nothing concrete to talk about other than mythical lightning strikes?

[FITZ]

With all the information they use to balance the power and so on, they have nothing concrete to talk about other than mythical lightning strikes?

I know in one longer power-out I've been through, it was blamed on a squirrel getting in somewhere and shorting everything out. I've had transformers near my house get hit by lightening and the breakers tripped --- I think people in the big cities expect everything to work always ---but electricity has only been commonly used less than 100 years --maybe we're just not as advanced as we like to think. Some of the infrastructure in NY and those other big cities is old and maybe wasn't meant to carry the loads they carry.

[GOP_1900AD]

I am really begining to suspect a multi point failure. Now, what would cause that?

[Joe Hadenuf]

I agree. I bet they know exactly what caused this event, but we probably wont be told.