Again in 2003, New York Metropolis, the monetary capital of the world, went darkish. A 29 hour energy outage that ranked as the largest in North American historical past and second largest ever wherever on the earth. Now, the drama began shortly after 4 p.m. on August 14th, when a 9 second occasion occurred on a small patch of the electrical grid in Akron, Ohio. And now an alarm that was meant to alert utility operators didn’t set off and that precipitated a single sagging energy line within the Midwest to cascade right into a multi-state, multi nation multibillion greenback disaster.
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