To: FairOpinion
Thanks for the Post post. I hope everyone reads it.
IMHO, right now, we just don't know what caused the blackout. Just because foul play isn't obvious doesn't mean there isn't foul play!
To: GodBlessPeggyNoonan
FOXNEWS: ConEd now claiming power restoration by 5am.
3,015 posted on
08/14/2003 9:04:04 PM PDT by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: GodBlessPeggyNoonan
And whether it was a cyberterror attack, someone making a mistake, or just overload of one system, it shouldn't be so easy to bring down so much of a huge grid. That is the really worrysome part of it.
Whatever caused the original problem, it should have been a localized problem and there should be safeguards so it doesn't cascade like that.
Someone mentioned that there were supposed to be safeguards in place to prevent this, so what happened to those safeguards?
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