Power Crisis Originated at Parma Ohio GM Plant (south of Cleveland)

Cleveland News Channel 5 | 8-15-3 | News Anchor

[Petronski]

The lead, breaking story on Cleveland local news is that officials at Parma's GM plant just south of Cleveland had a power anomaly which is now believed to be the initial source of the trouble on the Lake Erie Loop.

[Petronski]

No confirmation from other sources.

[Petronski]

Said Lake Erie Loop problems cascaded through the Niagara Mohawk grid to all the other places.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

That settles it then, It's definately George Bush's fault.

[TexasRepublic]

officials at Parma's GM plant just south of Cleveland had a power anomaly which is now believed to be the initial source of the trouble

"Hey Joe, I wouldn't plug another grinder into that extension - it might pop a fuse or something...."

[Shermy]

Good find.

But an "anomaly" at one place shouldn't pull down a part of a continent. IMO it's not this facilities "fault", but the fault may lie elsewhere in failing to properly respond.

Or the event was so strange it wasn't an anticipated contingency.

[.cnI redruM]

Yep, Ohio was a Red State!

[jaz.357]

a power anomaly???

Like the Chevy VEGA??

[Founding Father]

However, the blurb reads that it was the plant officials who had the power anomaly, not the plant itself. Perhaps the officials were named Bush.

[Petronski]

I definitely saw the report and now know it is WJW-TV channel 5, the ABC (spit) affiliate in Cleveland.

[Shermy]

Cleveland channel five has some text up:

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2408583/detail.html

[Fitzcarraldo]

Theory number seven in a growing list.

[Shermy]

GM is General Motors - not a power generating plant? What, a new problem with producing Crown Victorias?

[Petronski]

Could you move this to Breaking, if you see fit. I tried to code it for breaking, but seem to have been in too much of a rush.

[GSWarrior]

Wow. Early yesterday evening O'Reilly had on some "expert" from Cal State Fullerton or somewhere who said from the information available he thought the blackouts originated in Ohio...this while everyone else was saying it began near Niagara Falls.

[MonroeDNA]

I thought it was a squirel.

[joonbug]

I agree. Regardless of what happened or where, ultimately it is Bush's fault! I am envious of the Democrats since they can think so clearly and reach conclusions so easily, whereas most of us are required to do some thinking first.

[Petronski]

Power Outage Started At Parma GM Plant
Connection Made To Lake Erie Loop

UPDATED: 6:04 p.m. EDT August 15, 2003

CLEVELAND -- Officials believe that a history-making power outage began at the General Motors plant in Parma, NewsChannel5 reported.

On Thursday, it was a chain-reaction event. In nine seconds, 50 million people lost power and even all the built-in safeguards could not stop it.

"It's one of those events that being such a complex system ... that could not have been prevented," said Professor Iqbal Husain of the University of Akron of Blackout 2003.

Husain said because of reliability and economics, the country is broken into three grids for electric distribution. They are eastern, western and Texas.

He said there are faults in all the systems every day, but most are caught and isolated quickly.

Experts are focused on what is referred to as the Lake Erie Loop that connects transmission lines in Ohio and Michigan and circling through Canada to New York.

Some said the data points to faults on transmission lines in Ohio, starting a chain reaction.

Investigators said they're focusing on a massive electrical grid that encircles Lake Erie, moving power from New York to the Detroit area and then into Canada and back to New York state. They say there's been problems in the past with that transmission loop.

The North American Reliability Council said it's not sure where the problem started other than the Midwest. Ohio officials had dismissed the group's prior claim.

WEWS said the council ruled out terrorism and weather. Officials are investigating whether a utilty broke any rules.

[Camel Joe]

Commander Data, run a diagnostics program on that power anomaly. This looks like the work of that rascal Q!!!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Crown Victorias?

The Crown Vic is a Ford product driven by old geezers and State Troopers.

[Fitzcarraldo]

This might just be the "expert's" 10-cents circulating in the news media and fished out by a reporter eager to submit something by the deadline.