To: Helix
There's more than one "grid," but the one affected technically reaches as far west as Saskatchewan and Oklahoma, and as far south as Florida. What likely happened is that the power company command centers further out saw what was starting to happen in the Northeast and yanked themselves off the grid before the cascading failures got to them.
To: Solson; Dan from Michigan; Timesink
Thanks for your explanations. I didn't know much about the power grids.
961 posted on
08/14/2003 2:56:04 PM PDT by
Helix
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