Remembering the August 14 Blackout: street crime, comical interviews, and energy conservation

August 14, 2012

By Steve Aplin

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.http://canadianenergyissues.com/2012/08/14/remembering-the-august-14-blackout-street-crime-and-energy-conservation/