About 50 million people lost power Aug. 14, 2003, when a tree branch in Ohio started an outage that cascaded across a broad swath from Michigan to New England and Canada. Commuters in New York City and elsewhere had to sleep on steps, hitchhike or walk home as trains were rendered powerless and gas pumps stopped working; food spoiled as refrigerators and freezers thawed; jugs of water sold out as supply plants lost their ability to supply consumers; minds were set to wandering about terrorism fears less than two years after 9/11. Ten years later, The Associated Press asked several people: Where were you during the blackout of 2003? Yeah we are in such good shape on the power grid situation so what would you do should an earth quake, or tornado, etc hit in a power center? Think on this. In L.A. California, their water is pumped over the mountains to that city. it is built in a desert. now power grid goes out how many million people will be in severe danger of heat and or dehydration. within 72 hours?
Posted on: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:39:38 +0000
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