[Richard Kimball]

the city’s top tourist attractions and hot-spots went dark. Including Madison Square Garden in the middle of a Jennifer Lopez concert.

So, blackouts aren't all bad.

Texas also has it's own power grid.

[sockmonkey]

*** Texas also has it’s own power grid. ***

Something Texas did which I find stupid was to replace the natural gas powered pumping generation system to keep the natural gas flowing in emergencies/outages with electric powered ones.