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Satellite Views Of The Blackout

Posted by Hemos on from the eye-candy-is-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "These Before and After satellite views of the blackout, from the NOAA, show the geographic extent and intensity of the outage. Toronto, Ottawa, and Detroit seem the worst hit. Currently, a cnn article mentions that a reverse of power flow around Lake Erie may have caused an overload that triggered the programmed shutdown of the power grid. Would be interesting to know how the system and software works, but then again, that information could be dangerous in the wrong hands."

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  1. Not blacked out in New England by jefbed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Im in Rhode Island. Its funny to see the blackout stop short of us :)

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    1. Re:Not blacked out in New England by EvanTaylor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I've been to columbus... there aint much there that makes nearly the amount of light suburbs of boston do.

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  2. maybe...just maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    maybe if america spent less money interfering with and invading foreign countries and inventing new cruel and hideous ways to kill people, it might have some money left over to spend on its own infrastructure.

    just a thought