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Massive Power Blackout Retreats Stubbornly
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By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
A massive power blackout retreated stubbornly Friday as power officials st
ruggled to understand why the historic outage spread in minutes through the no
rtheastern United States and southern Canada. Lights flickered on and air cond
itioners restarted for some, but millions of others baked in stuffy rooms.
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Slideshow: Massive Blackout Hits Northeast
Bloomberg: No Evidence of Terrorism
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Massive Blackout Hits Northeast Cities
(AP Video)
From New York City, where millions faced a morning rush hour without subwa
y service, to Michigan, where some customers may have to endure a weekend with
out electricity, officials urged residents, businesses and travelers to cope w
ith the inconvenience.
“This is truly one of the instances where we’re all in this together,“
Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan said during a statewide address Thursday ni
ght. “So be calm, be supportive of your neighbor.“
While terrorism was swiftly ruled out by President Bush (news - web sites)
and other officials, there was scant indication of what had caused the outage
, which began on the cusp of Thursday’s afternoon rush hour in Eastern cities
.
The New York Independent System Operator, which runs the state’s wholesal
e electricity market and monitors power usage, said it had detected a sudden l
oss of power generation at 4:11 p.m.
Kenneth Klapp, an ISO spokesman, said the problem was detected from inform
ation on power usage and transmission prior to, during and after the blackout.
The ISO had not determined the exact location of the problem by early Friday.
More generally, industry and government experts blamed a system composed o
f interconnected grids that has not been upgraded to meet power demands.
In Cleveland, the loss of power wasn’t the only problem. About 1.5 millio
n residents faced a crisis because there was no electricity to pump water from
Lake Erie. At least three Eastern suburbs were out of water and officials sai
d Western suburbs could go dry.
About 540,000 customers in Ohio were without power, mostly in the Clevelan
d area.
In five northern New Jersey counties about 300,000 customers were without
power but in eight others, the number dropped below 1,000.
In New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn. where 30,000 customers had been without
power, the number dropped to 1,500.
But in New York, where early estimates had 80 percent of the state without
power, the percentage only dropped to some 60 percent near midnight.
Despite the outages in Manhattan, New York’s financial markets had no int
ention of shutting down.
The American Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites) an
d Nasdaq reported minimal interruption after the close of trading. All had bac
kup power generators and said they planned to open Friday.
However, businesses from Manhattan through the Midwest were anxious about
technical glitches and more power outages a day after the biggest blackout in
U.S. history.
In San Diego, the president said, “slowly but surely we’re coping with t
his massive, national problem,“ and added that he would order a review of “w
hy the cascade was so significant.“
Bush said he suspected that the nation’s electrical grid would need to be
modernized.
New York Gov. George Pataki praised his constituents for pulling together
to help each other. While New Yorkers poured out of immobile subway cars, emer
ged from stuck elevators, began long walks home or rested in local establishme
nts, one unidentified man saw beauty.
“You can actually see the stars in New York City,“ he said.
Anne Block, a law student in Lansing, Mich., said she used what little lig
ht was coming through a window to finish an exam at Thomas M. Cooley Law Schoo
l.
“We were taking an exam and boom, the lights went out. But I was determin
ed to finish. I kept writing. I wanted an ’A.’ There was no way I was going
to stop writing my exam,“ she said.
Electric industry and government officials said the nation’s power grid h
as needed major upgrades for years, but industry experts said there were three
major obstacles in the way: the expense, environmental opposition and people
who didn’t want power facilities near their back yards.
Both federal and state agencies, as well as congressional committees, are
expected to investigate the blackout and try to determine why measures put in
place to isolate grids and keep power disruptions from spreading failed to do
so.
Law enforcement agencies were ready for any security problem.
In New York, police helicopters, boats and heavily armed teams of special
counterterror officers moved into place at city landmarks and other sensitive
locations, police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. Officials swiftly realized the
power outage was not an act of terror, and they used so-called Atlas teams of
officers to make sure no one took advantage of the blackout to commit terroris
m, he said.
Officials in Detroit urged people to stay home during the night; nearby co
mmunities declared curfews to keep problems to a minimum.
Police in Mansfield, Ohio, spread into the streets to keep traffic flowing
. “A lot of officers are out there trying to make sure nobody gets hurt, to t
ry to cut down on the accidents,“ said jail officer Randi Allen.
The blackouts easily surpassed those in the West on Aug. 10, 1996, in term
s of people affected. Then, heat, sagging power lines and unusually high deman
d for electricity caused an outage for 4 million customers in nine states.
An outage in New York City in 1977 left 9 million people without electrici
ty for up to 25 hours. In 1965, about 25 million people across New York state
and most of New England lost electricity for a day.
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