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From: John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:13:03 -0700
Quiet here in New York City, thousands walking in the streets, auto
traffic is pleasantly minimal along upper Broadway. Traffic lights inoperative, as well as computers except for laptops such as this.
Telephones working. Portable radio says the outage is due to
northeast electrical grid failing. Not terrorist related, it is termed a "natural" outage due to overload.
One report said the cascading outage began at a sub-station in
NYC, another says it started in Canada.
Mayor Bloomberg says that power is now starting to come back,
a bit at a time as the individual elements of the grid are restored,
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