To: Mo1
I'm watching Channel 6 and they were talking about the outage. Apparently a grid station in Valley Forge saw an enormous current draw to the north, and the computers immediately disconnected from the northern grid to keep PA and South Jersey up. They said they weren't quite fast enough to protect the northern fringe, i.e. Erie and North Jersey. They're saying that they expect Erie to be up by midnight and all of NJ to be up by 6 or 7AM. One question the supervisor at the grid station had was, why didn't the computers in Canada and NY stop the problem there?
To: Windcatcher
Channel 10 News was saying the same thing
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08/14/2003 8:22:42 PM PDT by
Mo1
(I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
To: Windcatcher
"One question the supervisor at the grid station had was, why didn't the computers in Canada and NY stop the problem there?"
Now we are getting somewhere. The computers could not respond because they were infected.
To: Windcatcher
why didn't the computers in Canada and NY stop the problem there?
Maybe there's a rat .... worm in the computer?!?
To: Windcatcher
Seems to match the earlier theory that it was a Quebec plant that had a problem, made a mistake and didn't follow procedures by calling in power from adjacent areas, creating a surge/imbalance that was the reason for the cascade.
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