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Originally Posted by ppppenguin
I was in Vancouver when the eastern grid went down in 2003. Rather glad there isn't full interconnect. The US/Canada grids do seem rather fragile. I worry that the UK grid is going the same way.
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I was in Oradell NJ when that happened. But we didn't lose power, but the voltage was varying wildly from around 90 to 130V in a couple minutes cycle for about an hour. Turns out the guy who manages the local power company's distribution system lives a few houses from my mom's.
We also didn't lose power in this town back in 1965 or so when that big power failure hit the Northeast, seems whoever was running the local power company's system didn't like the way the meters were kicking and disconnected from the network before it died. .