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US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline

Posted by michael on from the alone-in-the-dark dept.

bofus writes "The U.S./Canada Power Outage Task Force issued the Aug. 14, 2003 Sequence of Events at noon today. While no conclusions are drawn at this point, it does paint a pretty good picture of what happened and when it happened."

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  1. The blame game by trolman · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The really bizarre part that has not been explained is that the frequency deviated. I saw frequency deviation alarms on my equipment (ups and pdus) on the data center floor in NY, NJ, and CT and this is the first time in my 20 years that this has happened. A glaring ommission is is that PJM stayed up as an entity. Kudos to PJM.

    The blame will be put onderegulation and lack of government oversight.

  2. MSBlaster.exe by devphaeton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Has anyone followed up or concluded anything regarding the possibility of the power grid's SCADA systems (which habitually run a stripped down Win2K) getting nailed by the Blaster worm? The timing is right, and there are a number of indications thereof:
    See:

    this or
    this or
    this.

    --


    do() || do_not(); // try();
  3. Bloomberg by oZZoZZ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mayor of NYC decided to publicly blame Canada for this before any facts surfaced.. while Lastman, the mayor of Toronto said something along the lines of "Do you expect the US to take blame for anything?", after *some* facts surfaced
    Neither responses were politically acceptable, however the media coverage of the blame game seemed to evaporate as soon as it was clear that it wasn't Canada's fault.
    I found that more than a little interesting.

  4. Late Night "Wacko" Talk Radio by GSpot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A couple of days after the blackout, I was staying up late and unfortunatley listed to some late night radio. Two different kooks were speculating on the cause of the blackout. One was positive that the Federal government was testing out some "advanced" weapon and the other freak was convinced that the culprit was the power companies looking for an edge to justify raising rates to build more infrastructure.

    just my .02$