[prairiebreeze]

I was just reading an Ontario newspaper article that said their Defense Minister "pointed a finger at a fire at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant" as the cause.

I hadn't heard this "theory". Not Pennsylvania anyway.

[TBall]

I've seen that rumor going around on other threads.

[Diddle E. Squat]

There was another person(I forget who, perhaps the MSNBC guy in DC?) who said the latest theory is that it was a lightning strike, but in Quebec(which would fit with the weather) that was the trigger, but not why the problem cascaded. The problem was that the operators made a big mistake instead of following proper procedures, calling in power from elsewhere in the system, which caused a problematic surge/imbalance. It all happened in 9 seconds.