Remembering the August 14 Blackout: street crime, comical interviews, and energy conservation
Nine
years ago today, the eastern North American electricity grid crashed
when trees fell on a transmission line in Ohio. Most of the northeastern
U.S. and southern Ontario suddenly were without electricity. The
blackout occurred in the middle of a hot sunny Thursday afternoon. I was
walking back to my downtown office when everything just went down:
traffic lights, building air conditioning, computers—everything. Like
millions of others in eastern North America, I assumed it was just a
local outage.
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