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In February 2004, the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force released their final report, placing the main cause of the blackout on FirstEnergy Corporation's failure to trim trees in part of its Ohio service area. Blackout sequence of events, August 14, 2003[15][16][17] (times in EDT): 12:15 p.m. Incorrect telemetry data renders inoperative the state estimator, a power flow monitoring tool operated by the Ohio-based Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO). An operator corrects the telemetry problem but forgets to restart the monitoring tool. 1:31 p.m. The Eastlake, Ohio generating plant shuts down. The plant is owned by FirstEnergy, an Akron, Ohio-based company that had experienced extensive recent maintenance problems.The problem kept getting worse in Ohio due to overgrown trees, inattentive operators, and such, and about two and a half hours later the Ohio system tried to gank 2 gigawatts of power from the Michigan system all at once, which caused the cascading effect and shut down everything within about five minutes. So you see.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
It was actually fun for a bit and then not being able to shower, buy food, or see virtually anything after the sun went down got old.I was in the middle of an epic 1v1, 50 cup vs. 50 cup beer pong game when the sun went down during the blackout. We both had to pull our cars next to the table and rely on the headlights. I don't remember much after that, other than standing on the hood of my own car and urinating on the windshield. Not my proudest moment.
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